US08030362B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods useful for the treatment of ear disorders, administered to a treated ear in the form of a foam or a mousse. Administering a medicament in such forms will increase the residence time of the medicament in the ear canal, provide relatively uniform distribution of the composition, and can increase the penetration of the active pharmaceutical ingredient in the affected area, may release active substances slowly, enhance treatment effectiveness, increase compliance and is more convenient to use than currently available ear medications. The administration in the form of a foam or a mousse may preferably be provided as a metered dose, of a volume suitable to fill the ear canal.
US08030354B2
The present invention provides compounds useful, for example, for treating metabolic disorders in a subject. Such compounds have the general formula I: where the definitions of the variables are provided herein. The present invention also provides compositions that include, and methods for using, the compounds in preparing medicaments and for treating metabolic disorders such as, for example, type II diabetes.
US08030347B2
The present application relates to a novel cyclopenta[b]benzofuran derivatives, processes for their preparation and their use for the manufacture of medicaments, in particular for the prophylaxis and/or therapy of acute or chronic disorders characterized by elevated cellular stress, by local or systemic inflammatory processes or by hyperproliferation.
US08030342B2
The present invention is directed to a dendritic polyamidoamine phthalocyanine derivative which is useful as, for example, a fluorescent material or a photodynamic therapeutic drug for cancer. The derivative is represented by the following formula (1): (wherein each member of one to eight of R1 to R8 is a polyamidoamine dendron represented by the following formula (a): (wherein p is a number from 1 to 4; R9 represents —NH(CH2)tNH2 or OR10 (wherein R10 represents an alkyl group); and each of l, m, q, and t is a number from 1 to 8), and each member of the remainder represents a hydrogen atom; M represents a metal atom having a valency of two or more; and a ring marked with (N) is a benzene ring, a pyridine ring, or a pyrazine ring).
US08030341B2
The present invention relates to symmetric and asymmetric dimeric Dmt (2′,6′-ditnethyl) compounds and Dmt derivative compounds with dual δ and μ opioid receptor antagonist activity. Also, the present invention provides compositions comprising these compounds and it provides methods of using these compounds.
US08030329B2
The invention relates to N-biarylamides useful for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of impairments of perception, concentration, learning and/or memory, and to processes for preparing them, and pharmaceutical compositions containing them.
US08030328B2
Disclosed are compounds of the formula: and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof wherein the variables A, n, R5, R21-R24 and Q are defined herein. These compounds bind VLA-4. Certain of these compound also inhibit leukocyte adhesion and, in particular, leukocyte adhesion mediated by VLA-4. Such compounds are useful in the treatment of inflammatory diseases in a mammalian patient, e.g., human, such as asthma, Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis, AIDS dementia, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, tissue transplantation, tumor metastasis and myocardial ischemia. The compounds can also be administered for the treatment of inflammatory brain diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
US08030327B2
The present invention relates to a compound represented by the Formula [I]: Wherein: the A ring is a 5-membered aromatic heterocyclic group containing at least one hetero atom selected from a nitrogen atom, and the like; A1 and A2, are each a nitrogen atom, and the like; X2, X3, X4, and X5 are all carbon atoms, or alternatively any one of X2, X3, X4, and X5 is a nitrogen atom and the rest are all carbon atoms; R1 is a hydrogen atom, or the like; R2, R3, R4, and R5, are each a hydrogen atom, or the like; R6 and R6′, are each a hydrogen atom, and the like; R7 is an aryl group and the like; and R8 is an amino group or a hydroxy group, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof.
US08030326B2
Provided is a rapamycin analog composition including a crystalline form of a rapamycin analog. The crystal can be a hydrate. dehydrate, solvate, or desolvate. The rampamycin analog can have a structure of Formula 1, which is optionally a prodrug, salt, derivative, or combination thereof:
US08030324B2
The present invention provides novel compounds represented by the general formula (I): their stereoisomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and their pharmaceutically acceptable solvates thereof, which are useful in treating metabolic disorders related to insulin resistance or hyperglycemia. The invention also relates to a process for the manufacture of compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutical compositions containing them.
US08030309B2
An enantiomer, diastereoisomer or tautomer of a compound, represented by formula I: wherein A, B, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, and R10 are as defined herein, or a salt or ester thereof, as an inhibitor of HCV NS5B polymerase.
US08030305B2
The invention is directed to triazolopyridazine compounds of Formula I: where R1, R5, R6, R7, R8, and A are as defined herein, the use of such compounds as protein tyrosine kinase modulators, particularly inhibitors of c-Met, and the use of such compounds to reduce or inhibit kinase activity of c-Met in a cell or a subject, and modulate c-Met expression in a cell or subject, and the use of such compounds for preventing or treating in a subject a cell proliferative disorder and/or disorders related to c-Met. The present invention is further directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the present invention and to methods for treating conditions such as cancers and other cell proliferative disorders.
US08030300B2
One aspect of the present invention relates to heterocyclic compounds that are ligands for nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. A second aspect of the invention relates to the use of a compound of the invention for modulation of a mammalian nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. The present invention also relates to the use of a compound of the invention for treating a mammal suffering from Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, dyskinesias, Tourette's syndrome, schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder, anxiety, pain, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, chemical substance abuse, alcoholism, memory deficit, pseudodementia, Ganser's syndrome, migraine pain, bulimia, obesity, premenstrual syndrome or late luteal phase syndrome, tobacco abuse, post-traumatic syndrome, social phobia, chronic fatigue syndrome, premature ejaculation, erectile difficulty, anorexia nervosa, disorders of sleep, autism, mutism or trichtillomania.
US08030298B2
The present invention relates to novel substituted steroid derivatives which represent selective inhibitors of the 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type I (17β-HSD1) and, in addition, which may represent inhibitors of the steroid sulphatase, as well as to their salts, to pharmaceutical preparations containing these compounds and to processes for the preparation of these compounds. Furthermore, the invention concerns the therapeutic use of said novel substituted steroid derivatives, particularly their use in the treatment, inhibition, prophylaxis or prevention of steroid hormone dependent diseases or disorders, such as steroid hormone dependent diseases or disorders requiring the inhibition of 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type I and/or steroid sulphatase enzymes and/or requiring the lowering of the endogenous 17β-estradiol concentration.
US08030296B2
There is provided a compound of Formula I wherein X is a ring system; R1 is any one of a sulphamate group, a phosphonate group, a thiophosphonate group, a sulphonate group or a sulphonamide group; R2 is any one of a sulphamate group, a phosphonate group, a thiophosphonate group, a sulphonate group or a sulphonamide group; wherein when X is a steroidal structure and both of R1 and R2 are sulphamate groups, the steroidal ring system (X) represents an oestrogen; and wherein said compound is capable of inhibiting steroid sulphatase (STS) activity and/or is capable of acting as a modulator of cell cycling and/or as a modulator of apoptosis and/or as a modulator of cell growth. There is also provided a compound of Formula VIII wherein R2 is any one of a sulphamate group, a phosphonate group, a thiophosphonate group, a sulphonate group or a sulphonamide group; and wherein said compound is capable of inhibiting steroid sulphatase (STS) activity and/or is capable of acting as a modulator of cell cycling and/or as a modulator of apoptosis and/or as a modulator of cell growth.
US08030295B2
Compounds of formula 1 are provided where X1, X2, and X3 are independently selected from H or hydroxy protecting groups, and R1 and R2 have the definitions provided herein. Such compounds may be used in preparing pharmaceutical compositions and are useful in treating a variety of biological conditions.
US08030294B2
The invention provides methods for treating or preventing psychiatric and substance abuse disorders, involving administration of a therapeutically-effective amount of a cytosine-containing or cytidine-containing compound, creatine-containing compound, adenosine-containing, or adenosine-elevating compound to a mammal.
US08030291B2
The invention provides antisense antiviral compounds and methods of their use and production in inhibition of growth of viruses of the Filoviridae family, and in the treatment of a viral infection. The compounds and methods relate to the treatment of viral infections in mammals including primates by Ebola and Marburg viruses. The antisense antiviral compounds are morpholino oligonucleotides having: a) a nuclease resistant backbone, b) 15-40 nucleotide bases, and c) a targeting sequence of at least 15 bases in length that hybridizes to a target region selected from the following: i) the Ebola virus AUG start site region of VP24; ii) the Ebola virus AUG start site region of VP35; iii) the Marburg virus AUG start site region of VP24; or iv) the Marburg virus AUG start site region of NP.
US08030284B2
Sequences and protocols for treatment of eye conditions by use of RNA interference are disclosed. Target genes are selected from those responsible for aqueous flow or aqueous outflow, while particularly preferred conditions to be treated include glaucoma and uveitis.
US08030276B2
The invention refers to the use of a TRPC channel, an inactivating mutant thereof, or a nucleotide sequence coding for the TRPC channel or for the inactivating mutant for the production of a medicament for the treatment of a cardiovascular disease and a method of screening a modulator of the TRPC channel or an inactivating mutant thereof.
US08030268B2
Disclosed is a cleaning composition that contains at least two surfactants selected from a cationic surfactant, a nonionic surfactants, a linear alkyl benzene sulfonate salt, a sulfated alcohol ethoxylate, an amine oxide, and an amphoteric surfactant; and a fragrance compound. The cleaning composition has composition has a Cup test value of at least about 70% of the standard reference formula and a QFR value of at least about 20%. Also disclosed are related methods of fragrance delivery including application and use of the composition.
US08030263B2
A composition comprising one or more water soluble organic solvents comprising a glycol ether; water; a fluoride containing compound provided that if the fluoride containing compound is ammonium fluoride than no additional fluoride containing compound is added to the composition; optionally a quaternary ammonium compound; and optionally a corrosion inhibitor is disclosed herein that is capable of removing residues from an article such as photoresist and/or etching residue. Also disclosed herein is a method for removing residues from an article using the composition disclosed herein.
US08030262B2
Provided are methods of cleansing dyed hair comprising applying to dyed hair a composition comprising anionic surfactant and a hydrophobically-modified polymer capable of binding surfactant thereto.
US08030247B2
Disclosed herein is a precursor solution for forming a biaxially oriented buffer layer through low-temperature heat treatment, by which a highly oriented buffer layer can be formed even when the precursor solution is heat-treated at a low temperature of 1000° C. or lower at the time of forming a buffer layer through a wet chemical method. The precursor solution is prepared by adding a carboxylate or an alkoxide of bismuth, boron, lead, gallium, or the like, which is a metal salt for forming an oxide having a low melting point of 1200° C. or lower after pyrolysis in an oxygen atmosphere, to a precursor solution for forming a buffer layer through a wet chemical method.
US08030246B2
Under one aspect, a laminated, spliced superconductor wire includes a superconductor joint, which includes (i) first and second superconductor wires, each wire including a substrate, a superconductor layer overlying the substrate, and a cap layer overlying the superconductor layer; and (ii) a conductive bridge, the conductive bridge including a substrate, a superconductor layer overlying the substrate, and a cap layer overlying the superconductor layer, wherein the cap layer of the conductive bridge is in electrically conductive contact with a portion of the cap layer of each of the first and second superconductor wires through an electrically conductive bonding material. The spliced wire also includes (b) a stabilizer structure surrounding at least a portion of the superconductor joint, wherein the superconductor joint is in electrical contact with the stabilizer structure; and (c) a substantially nonporous electrically conductive filler, wherein the filler substantially surrounds the superconductor joint.
US08030245B2
An agricultural chemical component includes an active agricultural chemical ingredient and a powder metal-modified apatite which has part of metal atoms in its apatite crystal structure provided by an optically catalytic metal. Preferably, the metal-modified apatite is coated with an organic film.
US08030243B2
A heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet, having a support, and at least two heat insulation layers and at least one receiving layer sequentially formed thereon, wherein each of the heat insulation layers comprises at least one kind of hollow particles and at least one kind of water-soluble polymer, and wherein the following relationship is satisfied: 1.5≦{(a1/a2)/(b1/b2)}≦50 wherein a1 is a mass of a hollow particle solid content in the heat insulation layer farthest from the support, a2 is mass of a water-soluble polymer solid content in the heat insulation layer farthest from the support, b1 is a mass of a hollow particle solid content in the heat insulation layer closest to the support, and b2 is a mass of a water-soluble polymer solid content in the heat insulation layer closest to the support.
US08030242B2
The invention concerns a process for preparing metallic nanoparticles with an anisotropic nature by using two different reducing agents, preferably with different reducing powers, on a source of a metal selected from columns 8, 9 or 10 of the periodic table of the elements.
US08030236B2
Disclosed are a fire-resistant ordinary ceramic batch and a fire-resistant product predominantly comprising a) at least one granular, fire-resistant, mineral, alkaline main component made of an MgO-based or MgO and CaO-based fire-resistant material that is based on at least one alkaline fire-resistant raw material, and b) at least one granular, fire-resistant, mineral, MgO-based, additional elasticator in the form of a forsterite material or a mixture forming forsterite material preferably as small molded articles, such as pellets or granulate that is comminuted from compacts. The small molded articles have a grain size ranging from 0.3 to 8 mm while being advantageously provided with a binder at an amount that elasticates the main component.
US08030235B2
A magnesia-carbon brick comprised of about 50 to about 95% by weight magnesia and about 1 to about 20% by weight carbon, with or without metallic additions, such that the chemical analysis of the mixture of aggregates used in the brick will comprise, by chemical analysis, about 2 to about 15% SiO2, about 3 to about 50% Al2O3, and about 50 to about 95% MgO.
US08030234B2
An improved aluminum-boron carbide (ABC) composite has been discovered that is comprised of a continuous network of AlB24C4 and boron carbide grains having therein other isolated aluminum-boron carbide reactive phases and at most 2% by volume of isolated metal. The improved ABC composite may be formed by forming boron carbide particulates into a porous body that has a porosity of at most about 35%, where the boron particulates have been heat treated to a temperature of 1200° C. to 1800° C., infiltrating the porous body with aluminum or aluminum alloy until an infiltrated aluminum-boron carbide body is formed that has at most about 1% porosity, heat treating the infiltrated body for at least 25 hours at 1000° C. to 1100° C. to form an aluminum boron carbide composite having a continuous network of AlB24C4 and boron carbide, and subsequently heat-treating to 700° C. to 900° C. to form the improved aluminum boron carbide composite.
US08030230B2
The present invention relates to a flame-retardant leather-like sheet having a soft hand, excellent surface touch and excellent appearance, which includes an entangled nonwoven fabric of microfine polyester fibers having an average single-fiber fineness of 0.5 dtex or less, and an elastic polymer contained inside the nonwoven fabric, wherein a flame-retardant is exhausted into the elastic polymer and wherein a flame retarder solution containing bubbles forcibly formed is applied to a back surface of the leather-like sheet so that the flame retarder is present in a region extending from the back surface to an inside of the leather-like sheet but is not present on side of a front surface of the leather-like sheet.
US08030225B2
A heat treatment method which can prevent heat deformation of a substrate caused during a heat treatment process on the substrate with a thin film formed on its surface is provided. The heat treatment method in accordance with the present invention includes (a) stacking a second substrate 10b on a first substrate 10a; and (b) stacking a weight 20 on the second substrate 10b, wherein the first substrate 10a and the second substrate 10b are stacked, with thin films 12 of the substrates 10a and 10b being in contact with each other. In accordance with the present invention, deformation of the substrate can be prevented by stacking the substrates, with thin films formed on the substrates being in contact with each other, and placing a weight on the stacked substrates during the heat treatment process.
US08030222B2
Methods and structures are provided for increasing alignment margins when contacting pitch multiplied interconnect lines with other conductive features in memory devices. The portions of the lines at the periphery of the memory device are formed at an angle and are widened relative to the portions of the lines in the array region of the memory device. The widened lines allow for an increased margin of error when overlaying other features, such as landing pads, on the lines. The possibility of contacting and causing electrical shorts with adjacent lines is thus minimized. In addition, forming the portions of the lines in the periphery at an angle relative to the portions of the lines in the array regions allows the peripheral portions to be widened while also allowing multiple landing pads to be densely packed at the periphery.
US08030208B2
There is described a bonding method for through-silicon-via bonding of a wafer stack in which the wafers are formed with through-silicon-vias and lateral microchannels that are filled with solder. To fill the vias and channels the wafer stack is placed in a soldering chamber and molten solder is drawn through the vias and channels by vacuum. The wafers are held together by layers of adhesive during the assembly of the wafer stack. Means are provided for local reheating of the solder after it has cooled to soften the solder to enable it to be removed from the soldering chamber.
US08030204B2
In a method of forming a wiring structure for a semiconductor device, an insulation layer is formed on a semiconductor substrate on which a plurality of conductive structures is positioned. An upper surface of the insulation layer is planarized and spaces between the conductive structures are filled with the insulation layer. The insulation layer is partially removed from the substrate to form at least one opening through which the substrate is partially exposed. A residual metal layer is formed on a bottom and a lower portion of the sidewall of the at least one opening and a metal nitride layer is formed on the residual metal layer and an upper sidewall of the opening with a metal material. Accordingly, an upper portion of the barrier layer can be prevented from being removed in a planarization process for forming the metal plug.
US08030194B2
A method is provided for producing semiconductor nanoparticles comprising: (i) dissolving a semiconductor compound or mixture of semiconductor compounds in a solution; (ii) generating spray droplets of the resulting solution of semiconductor compound(s); (iii) vaporizing the solvent of said spray droplets, consequently producing a stream of unsupported semiconductor nanoparticles; and (iv) collecting said unsupported semiconductor nanoparticles on a support.
US08030193B2
To fabricate a Schottky barrier diode in which a decrease in on current due to parasitic resistance is suppressed, variations in on current are suppressed, and an increase in off current is suppressed. The fabricating method includes the steps of forming an island-shape semiconductor film; doping the island-shape semiconductor film with a first impurity element to form a first impurity region; forming an insulating film so as to cover the island-shape semiconductor film; etching the insulating film to form a first opening and a second opening that partly expose the first impurity region; forming a mask over the insulating film so as to cover the first opening and expose the second opening; doping the first impurity region with a second impurity element to form a second impurity region; and forming a first wiring in contact with the first impurity region exposed at the first opening, and forming a second wiring in contact with the second impurity region exposed at the second opening. Since the second impurity element is added through the second opening, the periphery of the second opening is also doped with a slight amount of the second impurity element. Therefore, the first impurity region and the second wiring are located away a short distance from each other such that they are not shorted.
US08030192B2
A process for manufacturing a MOS device and the MOS device manufactured thereby are disclosed. The process includes in a semiconductor layer forming a gate structure above the semiconductor layer; forming a first doped region within a first surface portion of the semiconductor layer; and irradiating the first doped region with electromagnetic radiation, to carry out annealing thereof. Prior to the irradiating step, a dielectric mirror is formed above a second surface portion of the semiconductor layer. The dielectric mirror, which may be of the Bragg-reflector type, reflects at least in part the electromagnetic radiation, and protects underlying regions from the electromagnetic radiation.
US08030189B2
A method for maintaining a smooth surface of crystallizable material is disclosed. First, a substrate is provided. A target material layer is then formed on the substrate, with the target material being a crystallizable material. A protecting layer is subsequently formed on the target material layer. Next, an annealing treatment is implemented, with the surface of the target material layer, facing the protecting layer, being maintained in its original smooth state by the pressure and/or adhesion of the protecting layer. Finally, the protecting layer is removed to leave an open and smooth surface of the processed crystallizable material.
US08030185B2
A nano-hetero structure is provided. The nano-hetero structure includes at least one nano-semiconductor base and a plurality of metal nanoparticles attached on the surface of nano-semiconductor base.
US08030179B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor device that includes: stacked semiconductor chips, each semiconductor chip including a semiconductor substrate and a first insulating layer that is provided on side faces of the semiconductor substrate and has concavities formed on side faces thereof; first metal layers that are provided in center portions of inner side faces of the concavities; and second metal layers that are provided in the concavities and are connected to the first metal layers formed on each semiconductor chip. The present invention also provides a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device.
US08030174B2
An object is to provide a method for manufacturing an SOI substrate, by which defective bonding can be prevented. An embrittled layer is formed in a region of a semiconductor substrate at a predetermined depth; an insulating layer is formed over the semiconductor substrate; the outer edge of the semiconductor substrate is selectively etched on the insulating layer side to a region at a greater depth than the embrittled layer; and the semiconductor substrate and a substrate having an insulating surface are superposed on each other and bonded to each other with the insulating layer interposed therebetween. The semiconductor substrate is heated to be separated at the embrittled layer while a semiconductor layer is left remaining over the substrate having an insulating surface.
US08030171B2
An element isolation film is formed by filling an oxide in a trench formed in an element isolation region of a semiconductor substrate to thereby form an insulation film for element isolation. A method of forming the element isolation film includes a first step of depositing a material in a plasma state including oxygen and silicon on an inner surface of the trench while applying no bias voltage (or a relatively low voltage), and a second step of filling the material in a plasma state including oxygen and silicon in the trench while applying a bias voltage (or a relatively high voltage).
US08030161B2
A nonvolatile memory cell includes a substrate comprising a source, drain, and channel between the source and the drain. A tunnel dielectric layer overlies the channel, and a localized charge storage layer is disposed between the tunnel dielectric layer and a control dielectric layer. A gate electrode has a first surface adjacent to the control dielectric layer, and the first surface includes a midsection and two edge portions. According to one embodiment, the midsection defines a plane, and at least one edge portion extends away from the plane. Preferably, the edge portion extending away from the plane converges toward an opposing second surface of the gate electrode. According to another embodiment, the gate electrode of the nonvolatile memory cell includes a first sublayer and a second sublayer of a different width on the first sublayer.
US08030160B2
A string of nonvolatile memory cells connected in series includes fixed charges located between floating gates and the underlying substrate surface. Such a fixed charge affects distribution of charge carriers in an underlying portion of the substrate and thus affects threshold voltage of a device. A fixed charge layer may extend over source/drain regions also.
US08030153B2
A TMOS device (10) is formed using a semiconductor layer (16) of a first type. First and second regions (62,64) of the second type are formed in the semiconductor layer and are spaced apart. A third region (68) is formed in the semiconductor layer by implanting. The third region is between and contacts the first and second doped regions, is of the second conductivity type, and is less heavily doped than the first and second doped regions. A gate stack (67) is formed over a portion of the first doped region, a portion of the second doped region, and the third doped region. By implanting after forming the gate stack, fourth and fifth regions (98,100) of the first type are formed in interior portions of the first and second doped regions, respectively. The third region being of the same conductivity type as the first and second regions reduces Miller capacitance.
US08030147B2
To provide a method for manufacturing a thin film transistor with excellent electric characteristics and high reliability and a display device including the thin film transistor. A gate insulating film is formed over a gate electrode, crystal nuclei is formed over the gate insulating film using fluorosilane and silane, and crystal growth is generated using the crystal nuclei as nuclei to form a microcrystalline semiconductor film, so that crystallinity at an interface between the gate insulating film and the microcrystalline semiconductor film is improved. Next, a thin film transistor is manufactured using the microcrystalline semiconductor film having crystallinity improved at the interface between the gate insulating film and the microcrystalline semiconductor film as a channel formation region.
US08030144B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. The method forms a fin arrangement on a semiconductor substrate, the fin arrangement comprising one or more semiconductor fin structures. The method continues by forming a gate arrangement overlying the fin arrangement, where the gate arrangement includes one or more adjacent gate structures. The method proceeds by forming an outer spacer around sidewalls of each gate structure. The fin arrangement is then selectively etched, using the gate structure and the outer spacer(s) as an etch mask, resulting in one or more semiconductor fin sections underlying the gate structure(s). The method continues by forming a stress/strain inducing material adjacent sidewalls of the one or more semiconductor fin sections.
US08030139B2
A method of producing a thin film transistor includes a gate electrode formation step that forms a gate electrode on a substrate, a gate insulating layer formation step that forms a gate insulating layer on the substrate in such a manner as to cover the gate electrode formed in the gate electrode formation step, a source/drain electrodes formation step that forms a source electrode and a drain electrode on the gate insulating layer, and a semiconductor layer formation step that applies an aqueous solution for semiconductor layer formation which is an aqueous solution comprising at least a single wall carbon nanotube and a surfactant between the source electrode and the drain electrode formed in the source/drain electrodes formation step by a coating process to form a semiconductor layer comprising the single wall carbon nanotube.
US08030138B1
Panel level methods and systems for packaging integrated circuits are described. In a method aspect of the invention, a substrate formed from a sacrificial semiconductor wafer is provided having a plurality of metallized device areas patterned thereon. Each device area includes an array of metallized contacts and a die attach area. Dice are mounted onto each device area and electrically connected to the array of contacts. The entire surface of the substrate including the dice, contacts and electrical connections is then encapsulated. The semiconductor wafer is then sacrificed leaving portions of the contacts exposed allowing the contacts to be used as external contacts in an IC package. In various embodiments, other structures, including die attach pads, may be incorporated into the device areas as desired. By way of example, structures having thicknesses in the range of 10 to 20 microns are readily attainable.
US08030131B2
A module having a semiconductor chip with a first contact element on a first main surface and a second contact element on a second main surface is disclosed. The semiconductor chip is arranged on a carrier. An insulating layer and a wiring layer cover the second main surface and the carrier.
US08030125B2
The present invention is a method for manufacturing an organic thin-film transistor substrate including an organic thin-film transistor as a transistor element, and an object of the invention is to provide a manufacturing method capable of forming a bank in a smaller number of steps. The method for manufacturing the organic thin-film transistor substrate of the present invention, in which an organic thin-film transistor is formed in a first region on a substrate, a second region for forming a light-emitting element in abutment with the first region is included, and a bank part is formed in a peripheral part of the second region, is characterized by including: a first step of forming the organic thin-film transistor in the first region on the substrate and forming at least one of the gate insulation layer and the organic semiconductor layer included by this organic thin-film transistor as far as the second region, thereby forming, in the second region, a bank precursor layer composed of a laminated structure formed on the second region; and a second step of removing the regions of the bank precursor layer other than the peripheral part, thereby forming the bank part made of the remaining bank precursor layer.
US08030124B2
A method for fabricating an electronic device includes forming a layer of precursor material for forming a semi-conductor material in a cured state and exposing the precursor material to light. The precursor is heated in the presence of the light to form an insulator in areas exposed to light and a semiconductor in areas not exposed to the light. The light is preferably in the visible range. Suitable precursors may include 6,13-dihydro-6,13-(2,3,4,5-tetrachloro-2,4-cyclohexadieno)-pentacene (202) to form, for example, pentacene (204) as the semiconductor and 6,13-pentacenequinone (206) as an insulator. A device made in accordance with the method is also included.
US08030119B2
A method for fabricating a photovoltaic (PV) cell panel wherein all PV cells are formed simultaneously on a two-dimensional array of monocrystalline silicon mother wafers affixed to a susceptor is disclosed. Porous silicon separation layers are anodized in the surfaces of the mother wafers. The porous film is then smoothed to form a suitable surface for epitaxial film growth. An epitaxial reactor is used to grow n- and p-type films forming the PV cell structures. Contacts to the n- and p-layers are deposited, followed by gluing of a glass layer to the PV cell array. The porous silicon film is then separated by exfoliation in a peeling motion across all the cells attached together above, followed by attaching a strengthening layer on the PV cell array. The array of mother wafers may be reused multiple times, thereby reducing materials costs for the completed solar panels.
US08030115B2
A solid-state image pickup device which includes a substrate carrying a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements which are two-dimensionally arranged therein the substrate having a plurality of rectangular light-receiving faces each corresponding to the photoelectric conversion element, a flattening layer having a plurality of approximately rectangular concave faces each located to correspond to the light-receiving faces, and a color filter having color layers of plural kinds of colors and buried in the concave faces of the flattening layer, the color filter exhibiting a larger refractive index than that of the flattening layer, wherein the color layers are respectively enabled to function as a convex lens.
US08030091B2
A test device and method for determining the presence or absence of one or more analytes in a fluid sample, the test device including a support or member bearing a mark thereon, and a matrix or member containing a capture zone. In operation, an observation area in the test device becomes transparent, thereby allowing the user to view a mark that is present on a support that is disposed beneath the observation area. Typically, the mark on the underlying support is configured as a minus (−) sign. In the absence of analyte in the sample, the test device presents a negative result as a minus (−) signal. In the presence of analyte in the sample, however, the mark operates in concert with a perpendicular test line on the observation area to present a positive result as a plus (+) signal that is visible to the user.
US08030090B2
A biological sample solution is ionized by electrospray and the sample solution is irradiated with an infrared laser beam to dissociate biological macromolecules into the constituents thereof. As a result, only non-covalent bonds of the biological macromolecules can be selectively severed and analyzed.
US08030084B2
Provided are methods for determining the amount of thyroglobulin in a sample using various purification steps followed by mass spectrometry. The methods generally involve purifying thyroglobulin in a test sample, digesting thyroglobulin to form peptide T129, purifying peptide T129, ionizing peptide T129, detecting the amount of peptide T129 ion generated, and relating the amount of peptide T129 ion to the amount of thyroglobulin originally present in the sample.
US08030083B2
A method for analyzing a structural affinity relationship between plural kinds of proteins and a compound, comprising the steps of (a) using a compound-immobilized carrier to purify plural kinds of proteins bound to the compound on the carrier, from a group of isotope-labeled proteins; (b) using a compound-immobilized carrier to purify plural kinds of proteins bound to the compound on the carrier, from a group of proteins brought into contact with a compound beforehand; (c) mixing the proteins obtained in step (a) and step (b); (d) analyzing the mixture obtained in step (c) with mass spectrometry; (e) identifying each of plural kinds of proteins based on information obtained by the mass spectrometry; and (f) obtaining an intensity ratio between a labeled peak and a non-labeled peak of each protein, thereby quantitating an affinity ratio of the compound to each protein.
US08030082B2
The invention includes a method of detecting impurities in a metal-containing article. A portion of metal material is removed from a metal article and is solubilized in an acid or base-comprising liquid to produce a liquid sample. The liquid sample is subjected to an incident laser beam and light scattered from the sample is detected. The invention includes a method of analyzing a physical vapor deposition target material. A portion of target material is removed from the target and is rinsed with an acid-comprising solution. The portion of target material is dissolved to produce a liquid sample. The sample is subjected to an incident laser beam and scatter of the laser beam is detected to determine the number of particles present in the sample within a particular size range.
US08030075B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a nucleic acid delivery carrier composition of low toxicity and high safety, the carrier composition, when used to administer a nucleic acid such as an siRNA into an animal-derived cell or organism, being capable of delivering efficiently the nucleic acids into the cells while protecting it from being degraded; and a nucleic acid deliver composition containing the carrier and a nucleic acid. The carrier composition for delivery of a nucleic acid is prepared by mixing (A) a cationic lipid having a steroid skeleton with (B) a tertiary ammonium salt-type cationic lipid. The nucleic acid delivery composition is prepared by mixing the nucleic acid delivery carrier with a nucleic acid.
US08030073B2
The present invention provides a method of micropropagating a monocotyledonous plant comprising: (a) cultivating an explant of tissue from a monocotyledonous plant shoot tip on a primary medium, wherein the explant has been pretreated with a cold temperature and the primary medium comprises auxin or auxin and cytokinin, to produce a totipotent embryogenic cell culture; (b) treating the totipotent embryonic cell culture with a cold temperature; (c) maintaining the totipotent embryogenic cell culture by cultivation on a secondary medium, whereby a totipotent embryogenic cell culture of a monocotyledonous plant is produced and maintained; and (d) transferring the embryogenic cell culture of step (c) to a tertiary medium to continue multiplication and to produce a plantlet with roots and shoots, thereby micropropagating a monocotyledonous plant. The micropropagation techniques described herein provide plants for such purposes as development of elite plant lines, phytoremediation and biomass production.
US08030072B2
The present invention describes novel methods for isolating a substantially pure cell population of non-embryonic epidermal neural crest stem cells from the bulge-region of mammalian hair follicles. Also disclosed is the substantially pure cell population of follicular bulge-derived neural crest stem cells for medical research and therapeutic use.
US08030058B1
Advanced islet separation technology incorporates an automated method, automated control methodology, process control interface, and automated apparatus to separate (isolate) and process pancreatic islets in a tissue suspension in physiologic process solution, utilizing microprocessor control and/or microprocessor computer control and software programming (code) to interface and control the process temperature, fluid flow rate, pH, dissolved oxygen concentration, endotoxin concentration, dissolved nitric oxide concentration, nitric oxide synthase activity, proteolytic enzyme activity, and/or pressure of the islet containing physiologic process solution, the extent of islet separation, including real-time data acquisition and recording of process variables.
US08030045B2
The present disclosure provides novel beta-alanine/alpha ketoglutarate aminotransferase nucleic acid and protein sequences having increased biological activity. Also provided are cells containing such enzymes, as well as methods of their use, for example to produce malonyl semialdehyde and downstream products thereof, such as 3-hydroxypropionic acid and derivatives thereof.
US08030044B2
The present invention relates to a method of producing a variant lipid acyltransferase enzyme by selecting a parent enzyme which is a lipid acyltransferase enzyme having the amino acid sequence motif GDSX, modifying one or more amino acids to produce a variant lipid acyltransferase, testing the variant lipid acyltransferase for activity on a galactolipid substrate, a phospholipid substrate and/or a triglyceride substrate, selecting a variant enzyme with an enhanced activity towards galactolipids compared with the parent enzyme, and/or preparing a quantity of the variant enzyme. In some embodiments, the variant lipid acyltransferase enzyme may include the amino acid sequence motif GDSX, wherein X is one or more of the following amino acid residues L, A, V, I, F, Y, X, Q, T N, M or S, and wherein the variant enzyme has one or more amino acid modifications compared with a parent sequence.
US08030038B2
Disclosed herein is a method for stabilization of the perhydrolase activity of the CE-7 esterase in a formulation with a carboxylic acid ester that employs the addition of a buffering agent, substantially undissolved, to the mixture of the CE-7 esterase and the carboxylic acid ester. Further, disinfectant and laundry care formulations comprising the peracids produced by the processes described herein are provided.
US08030034B2
The present invention relates to methods, kits, and compositions for generating purified RNA samples and purified DNA samples. In particular, the present invention provides methods for generating a purified RNA or DNA sample from a sample containing both DNA and RNA molecules using a binding matrix that preferentially binds DNA or RNA in the presence of an acidic dilution buffer, or using a binding matrix that comprises acid zeolites, as well as compositions and kits for practicing such methods.
US08030033B2
The present invention relates to methods, compositions and kits for determining the prognosis of a clinical response in a human patient to a medicament which acts in the central nervous system and which is a substrate of the ABCB1 protein. Further, the invention relates to a combination of medicaments for the treatment of human patients having specific polymorphisms in the ABCB1 gene.
US08030024B2
The present invention is directed to a method of producing spider dragline and/or flagelliform proteins. The invention is further directed to a method of producing spider threads and to a dragline/flagelliform protein or dragline/flagelliform protein thread produced by these methods. The invention further provides the use of these proteins/threads in the field of biotechnology and/or medicine, in particular in the manufacture of wound closure or coverage systems, suture materials and in the manufacture of replacement materials, preferably artificial cartilage or tendon materials.
US08030023B2
The invention concerns anti-DR5 antibodies with improved properties, compositions comprising such antibodies, methods and means for making such antibodies, and their therapeutic use, in particular in the treatment of cancer.
US08030012B2
A method for detection and prognosis of breast cancer and other types of cancer. The method comprises detecting expression, if any, for both an Id-1 and an Id-2 genes, or the ratio thereof, of gene products in samples of breast tissue obtained from a patient. When expressed, Id-1 gene is a prognostic indicator that breast cancer cells are invasive and metastatic, whereas Id-2 gene is a prognostic indicator that breast cancer cells are localized and noninvasive in the breast tissue.
US08030008B2
The present invention relates to the discovery that specific human taste receptors in the T2R taste receptor family respond to particular bitter compounds. The invention further relates to the use of these receptors in assays for identifying ligands that modulate the activation of these taste receptors by these bitter ligands and related compounds and which may be used as additives and/or removed from foods, beverages, cosmetics and medicinals in order to modify (block) T2R-associated bitter taste.
US08030003B2
Eotaxin-3, as a marker for eosinophilic esophagitis and methods of assessing, mitigating, and monitoring eosinophilic esophagitis by altering eotaxin-3 and/or CCR3 function, are disclosed.
US08029998B2
Methods and kits for predicting the efficacy of antifolate (e.g., methotrexate) treatment of rheumatoid arthritis by detecting polymorphisms, particularly single nucleotide polymorphisms, in adenosine pathway genes.
US08029994B2
A method of identifying target analytes in a sample, particularly a biological sample, comprising the steps of putting a plurality of target analytes, bound to a common luminescent marker, in contact with a plurality of molecular probes immobilized on a support, each of said molecular probes being capable of complementary binding to a respective target analyte, if said target analyte is present in the sample, providing to said support an excitation radiation and detecting an emission radiation coming from said support as a result of at least one complementary binding event, characterized by the fact that: said support comprises a plurality of photonic crystal resonators, at least two of said resonators being characterized by different resonance wavelengths; each of said molecular probes being fixed to a respective resonator; and by the fact that the identification of at least one target analyte is carried out through the analysis of the total emission spectrum coming from said plurality of photonic crystals resonators, in order to detect possible wavelength resonance peaks generated as a result of the binding of said target analyte, bound to the common luminescent marker, to one or more of said molecular probes.
US08029990B2
The subject of the present invention is to provide a microarray for introducing nucleic acid, the microarray capable of introducing and expressing nucleic acid into cells simply by adding the nucleic acid onto a plate and the like, and then seeding the cells thereon and culturing them without adding a nucleic acid-introducing reagent or additives. The subject is achieved by preparing the microarray including atelocollagen, a gene-introducing agent and nucleic acid on a plate and the like for the introduction of nucleic acid. The nucleic acid can be introduced into a cell by seeding cells into which nucleic acids are introduced on the microarray and culturing them without the need of preparing a mixture of viral vectors, nucleic acids and a nucleic acid-introducing agent after culturing cells or the need of adding a nucleic acid-introducing agent and additives.
US08029978B2
The present invention relates to a processing method for long-term stabilization of biological red blood cell volume. The red blood cells can be further used in reference materials and calibrators of a hematology analyzer. The method of the present invention comprises contacting the sample with a solution comprising a membrane-fixation reagent and an aldehyde for a processing period to terminate or slow down the red blood cell metabolism. It is provided by experiments that such process enables the volume of the red blood cells to be stable in a period over 120 days.
US08029977B2
Use of a composition which contains at least one semifluorinated alkane compound and at least one liquid siloxane, wherein the composition is of a density in a range of 0.8 to 1.5 g/cm3, for preserving organs or limbs.
US08029969B2
A photosensitive material for use in semiconductor manufacture comprises a copolymer that includes a plurality of photoresist chains and a plurality of hydrophobic chains, each hydrophobic chain attached to the end of one of the photoresist chains. The copolymer in response to externally applied energy will self-assemble to a photoresist layer and a hydrophobic layer.
US08029958B2
The presently disclosed embodiments are directed to an improved low wear overcoat for an imaging member having a substrate, a charge transport layer, and an overcoat layer positioned on the charge transport layer, and a process for preparing the same, where the overcoat layer includes an aromatic polyol binder, a hole transport molecule, and a melamine formaldehyde curing resin.
US08029955B2
Provide is an electrophotographic photoreceptor exhibiting excellent evenness of halftone images together with fine line reproduction, and an image forming method thereof, as to a photoreceptor in which an oxytitanium phthalocyanine pigment having a maximum diffraction peak at a Bragg angle (2θ±0.2°) of 27.2° in CuKα X-ray diffraction. Also disclosed is an electrophotographic photoreceptor possessing a body having cylindrical conductive support provided thereon photosensitive layer containing oxytitanium phthalocyanine pigment having maximum diffraction peak at a Bragg angle (2θ±0.2°) of 27.2° in CuKα X-ray diffraction, and flanges jointed at both ends of the body, wherein at least one of flanges is fitted with driving shaft having drive hole having at least 3 sides, and a ratio B/A of cross-sectional area B of engaging part of rotation shaft to rotate the electrophotographic photoreceptor with respect to cross-sectional area A of the drive hole is 0.890-0.998.
US08029942B2
A fuel cell system having flow fields capable to operate like interdigitated flow fields, but in the same time allowing the removal of liquid water collected in the high-pressure channels, throughout individual exhaust passages. In a preferred embodiment, the channels follow radial-circumferential trajectories, each channel being provided with individual exhaust passages. In another preferred embodiment, each channel is provided with a valve control in both individual supply passages and individual exhaust passages allowing the system to operate alternatively as an interdigitated flow field as well as an open-channel flow field.
US08029938B2
The electric power source comprises a fuel cell and at least one flow channel the inlet and outlet whereof are respectively connected to a reactive fluid source and to a tank designed to contain the reactive fluid feeding the fuel cell and the water produced by the fuel cell. An inlet valve is arranged between the reactive fluid source and the inlet of the flow channel and is controlled by a control device. Once the tank has been filled with reactive fluid, the inlet valve is closed for a predetermined first time period. It is then opened for a predetermined second time period so as to evacuate the water accumulated in the fuel cell during the first time period to the tank, and to refill the tank with reactive fluid.
US08029934B2
The present invention provides a battery that experiences a small degree of temporal change from the initial battery properties over the long term storage period of the battery. Specifically, the present invention provides a lithium secondary battery, in which a positive electrode capable of storing and releasing lithium and a negative electrode capable of storing and releasing lithium are formed via an electrolyte, wherein: the electrolyte comprises a cyclic solvent and a chain-type solvent and contains a compound having a boron-oxygen bond (B—O) and a carbon-carbon double bond (C═C).
US08029929B2
A positive electrode active material for a lithium battery is provided which offers high-temperature storage property and battery properties and comprises manganese dioxide having a crystal structure that exhibits an X-ray diffraction pattern in which peaks having a peak intensity ratio of not less than 0.05 with respect to the peak at 2θ=37.3°±0.5° are present at positions of 2θ=18.2°±0.5°, 19.5°±0.5°, 28.6°±0.5°, 56.6°±0.5°, 59.1°±0.5°, and 65.1°±0.5°, or further at 2θ=22.0°±1.0°, the X-ray diffraction pattern being obtained using a powder X-ray diffraction device (XRD) that uses CuKα1 rays.
US08029926B2
A rechargeable battery includes a PTC device including a cover member provided on the surface of the PTC body to prevent high-temperature hot-melt resin from making direct contact with the surface of the PTC body when the battery pack is being fabricated and to provide a space to allow the PTC body to expand during the operation of the PTC device.
US08029914B2
High performance coated metal compositions resistant to metal dusting corrosion and methods of providing such compositions are provided by the present invention. The coated metal compositions are represented by the structure (PQR), wherein P is an oxide layer at the surface of (PQR), Q is a coating metal layer interposed between P and R, and R is a base metal. P includes alumina, chromia, silica, mullite or mixtures thereof. Q includes Ni and Al, and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Cr, Si, Mn, Fe, Co, B, C, N, P, Ga, Ge, As, In, Sn, Sb, Pb, Sc, La, Y, Ce, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Mo, W, Ru, Rh, Ir, Pd, Pt, Cu, Ag, Au and mixtures thereof. R is selected from the group consisting of carbon steels, low chromium steels, ferritic stainless steels, austenetic stainless steels, duplex stainless steels, Inconel alloys, Incoloy alloys, Fe—Ni based alloys, Ni-based alloys and Co-based alloys. Advantages exhibited by the disclosed coated metal compositions include improved metal dusting corrosion resistance at high temperatures in carbon-supersaturated environments having relatively low oxygen partial pressures. The coated metal compositions are suitable for use in syngas generation process equipment.
US08029911B2
There are provided an adhesive for connecting a circuit to be interposed between substrates having circuit electrodes thereon opposed to each other and to electrically connect the circuit electrodes on the substrates opposed to each other to the pressurizing direction under pressure, wherein the adhesive contains a compound having an acid equivalent of 5 to 500 KOH mg/g, and an adhesive for connecting a circuit to be interposed between substrates having circuit electrodes opposed to each other and to electrically connect the electrodes on the substrate opposed to each other to the pressurizing direction under pressure, wherein the adhesive comprises a first adhesive layer and a second adhesive layer, and a glass transition temperature of the first adhesive layer after pressure connection is higher than the glass transition temperature of the second adhesive layer after pressure connection.
US08029905B2
The present invention provides novel compounds of the formula Gei-x-ySixSny, wherein 0.01
US08029901B2
A polyaryl ether intermediate transfer media, such as a belt, and a multi layered intermediate transfer media, that includes a supporting substrate, like a polyimide and deposited on the substrate a polyaryl ether.
US08029900B2
One embodiment of a thermal interface material includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes each having a first end and an opposite second end, a heat current collector covering one of the first ends and the second ends of the carbon nanotubes, and a macromolecular material filled in spaces between the carbon nanotubes and heat current collector. A method for manufacturing a thermal interface material is also provided.
US08029898B2
Inorganic compound particles constituted of a shell, a porous matter or a cavity enclosed therein, and the porous matter or the cavity being kept unchanged in a subsequently formed transparent coating film.
US08029895B1
Painter's tape has an adhesive portion that covers said tape's partial or entire width on only one of its two opposing flat surfaces, an absorbent material layer across all or at least a portion of said width, and a layer of non-porous barrier film covering said absorbent material layer to prevent a passage of paint (fluids).
US08029885B2
Disclosed is a multi-layer film comprising: a surface layer having a thickness of 10 to 50 ∫Êm made of an ethylene-∫-olefin copolymer having a density of 0.935 to 0.950 g/cm3, a flexible layer having a thickness of 100 to 200 ∫Êm made of an ethylene-∫-olefin copolymer having a density of 0.860 to 0.930 g/cm3, a barrier layer having a thickness of 10 to 80 ∫Êm made of a mixed resin containing 60 to 95% by weight of a cyclic olefin polymer and 5 to 40% by weight of an ethylene-∫-olefin copolymer having a density of 0.900 to 0.965 g/cm3, and a seal layer having a thickness of 5 to 80 ∫Êm made of an ethylene-∫-olefin copolymer having a density of 0.910 to 0.950 g/cm3. This multi-layer film is suited for use as a material for production of a medicine container 10 because it suppresses adsorption of a medicine by the barrier layer and is also superior in strength and flexibility.
US08029883B2
A transfer medium is provided for receiving images formed on the medium by inks or toners comprising thermally diffusible colorants, including disperse dye and sublimation dye, and methods of using the medium to present images on substrates. The medium provides an opaque layer that allows transfer of the image from the medium to a substrate, and provides a background for the image when the image is transferred to a dark colored substrate, so that the dark colored substrate does not obscure the image.
US08029878B2
A medical container comprising a body for containing a medicament, the body of the medical container being formed of a multilayered film comprising (i) a layer formed of a linear polyolefin and (ii) a layer formed of a cyclic polyolefin adjacent to the layer (i), and the layer (i) formed of the linear polyolefin satisfying the following conditions (a) and/or (b): Condition (a): an amount of a liquid component, which remains after Soxhlet's extraction with organic solvents followed by evaporation of the solvents, is 0.2% by weight or less, and Condition (b): a branching degree of a component, which remains after Soxhlet's extraction with n-hexane followed by evaporation of n-hexane, is 50 or less per 1,000 carbon atoms.
US08029873B2
The present invention is a film deposition method of a metal film comprising the steps of: placing an object to be processed having a recess formed in a surface thereof, on a stage in a processing vessel; evacuating the processing vessel to create a vacuum therein; ionizing a metal target in the evacuated processing vessel to generate metal particles including metal ions, by means of a plasma formed by making the plasma from an inert gas; and by applying a bias electric power to the object to be processed placed on the stage to draw the plasma and the metal particles into the object to be processed, scraping a bottom part of the recess to form a scraped recess, and depositing a metal film on an entire surface of the object to be processed including surfaces in the recess and in the scraped recess.
US08029869B2
Techniques for fabricating a structure from nanoparticles are generally described. Some example techniques are methods for fabricating an apparatus from nanoparticles. Example methods may include providing nanoparticles that are electrically charged with a first polarity and collecting the nanoparticles on a particle collection device having a second polarity opposite the first polarity. The nanoparticles can then be transferred onto a base structure from the particle collection device.
US08029855B2
An inorganic oxide dispersion containing an organic solvent, and inorganic oxide particles surface-treated with at least one of a hydrolyzate and a partial condensate of an organosilane compound represented by formula (I), the inorganic oxide particles being dispersed in the organic solvent: (R10)m—SI(X)4-m (I) as defined herein, the surface treatment of the inorganic oxide particles being carried out in a presence of at least one of: (a) an acid catalyst; and (b) a metal chelate compound having Zr, Ti or Al as a center metal and at least one of an alcohol represented by formula: R3OH in which R3 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and a compound represented by formula: R4COCH2COR5 as defined herein, as a ligand.
US08029854B2
The present invention provides a process for repairing concrete involving filling one of a void, gap or seam in the concrete with a polyurethane sealant containing a silane terminated prepolymer (“STP”), and a catalyst, optionally, one or more of plasticizers, fillers, pigments, drying agents, light stabilizers, antioxidants. thixotropic agents and bonding agents and applying an isocyanate-terminated prepolymer containing polyurethane or polyurea coating to the silane terminated prepolymer polyurethane sealant.
US08029842B2
An oxygen-absorbing composition, device, and method for oxygen scavenging in a low moisture environment are provided. The present invention provides an oxygen absorbing composition which includes an oxygen reducing agent, water, a carrier, an electrolyte salt, and a humectant salt, which may be the same as the electrolyte salt, present in an amount sufficient to reduce the water activity of the composition to below 0.6. Also included are methods of using the composition.
US08029834B2
The bread making method includes cold sponge, dough, and second fermentation processes. For cold sponge, 18 to 19.5 parts strong flour, 0.18 to 0.21 parts dried yeast, 0.03 to 0.036 parts yeast food, 0.06 to 0.09 parts salt, 0.06 to 0.09 parts improver, and 10.2 to 11.4 parts water are mixed at a temperature, low speed stirred, high speed stirred, and fermented. In the dough process, the resulting mixture of the cold sponge process is mixed with 12 to 13.5 parts strong flour, 2.1 to 2.7 parts sugar, 0.45 to 0.54 parts salt, 0.9 to 20 1.5 parts dried milk, 0.09 to 0.15 parts dried yeast, 2.1 to 3 parts margarine, and 8.1 to 9.3 parts water, and the resulting mixture is given floor and bench time and divided into pieces. In the second fermentation process, the pieces are molded and fermented.
US08029827B2
Insecticidal compositions suitable for use in preparation of insecticidal liquid fertilizers comprising a pyrethroid, a hydrated aluminum-magnesium silicate, and at least one dispersant selected from the group consisting of a sucrose ester, a lignosulfonate, an alkylpolyglycoside, a naphthalenesulfonic acid formaldehyde condensate and a phosphate ester are disclosed.
US08029824B2
A hydrogel of the semi-interpenetrating network structure or interpenetrating network structure, characterized in that the hydrogel is one formed from a first monomer ingredient at least 10 mol % of which is accounted for by a charge-possessing unsaturated monomer, the molar ratio of the first monomer ingredient to the second monomer ingredient being from 1/2 to 1/100, and that the second monomer ingredient has been polymerized and crosslinked to a lower degree of crosslinking than the first monomer ingredient. The hydrogel is usable in a diaper, sanitary good, sustained-release agent, construction material, building material, communication material, soil conditioner, contact lens, ocular lens, hollow fiber, artificial cartilage, artificial organ, material for fuel cells, battery diaphragm, impact-resistant material, cushion, etc.
US08029822B2
The present invention provides a simple and improved osmotic device that is capable of providing a controlled release of active agent contained in the core first through a preformed passageway and then through an in situ formed second passageway into an environment of use. One or both of the passageways optionally increases in size during use of the osmotic device. The preformed passageway and/or the second passageway increase the release rate of the active agent, enable the release of large particles containing active agent, and/or enable the release of active agents that are substantially insoluble in the environment of use. By virtue of the in situ formation of the second aperture, the device is able to release a greater overall percentage of active agent than it would release in absence of the second aperture.
US08029818B2
The present invention relates to a method for reducing the postprandial glycemic excursion to carbohydrates by feeding supplemental fructose prior to the carbohydrate challenge. The unit does of fructose required to blunt the postprandial glycemic excursion is from about 2 grams to about 30 grams fructose. The fructose source is consumed from about 10 to about 90 minutes before a meal.
US08029817B2
The invention is a silicon substituted oxyapatite compound (Si-OAp) for use as a synthetic bone biomaterial either used alone or in biomaterial compositions. The silicon substituted oxyapatite compound has the formula Ca5(PO4)3-x(SiO4)xO(1-x)/2, where 0
US08029808B2
The present invention relates to methods of improving a treatment outcome comprising administering a heat shock protein (HSP) preparation or an α-2-macroglobulin (α2M) preparation with a non-vaccine treatment modality. In particular, an HSP preparation or an α2M preparation is administered in conjunction with a non-vaccine treatment modality for the treatment of cancer or infectious diseases. In the practice of the invention, a preparation comprising HSPs such as but not limited to, hsp70, hsp90 and gp96 alone or in combination with each other, noncovalently or covalently bound to antigenic molecules or α2M, noncovalently or covalently bound to antigenic molecules is administered in conjunction with a non-vaccine treatment modality.
US08029795B2
A targeted iron chelator delivery system that comprises an iron chelator, a targeting agent and a lipid carrier, e.g., a liposome, is provided. The iron chelator delivery system may be used to remove excess iron from specific organs such as, for example, heart and liver tissue. Methods for preparing and administering the targeted iron chelator delivery system are also provided. The iron chelator delivery system may be administered during a blood transfusion to prevent iron overload.
US08029788B2
The invention is directed towards mouse-human chimeric variants of CC49 monoclonal antibodies with minimal murine content. A first aspect of the invention provides CDR variants of humanized monoclonal antibody (HuCC49) in which less than all six (three heavy chain and three light chain) Complementarity Determining Regions (CDRs) of CC49 are present. A second aspect of the invention provides SDR variants of humanized monoclonal antibody (HuCC49) in which only Specificity Determining Regions (SDRs) of at least one CDR from CC49 are present. The invention is also directed towards biotechnological methods of making the variants and therapeutic methods of using the variants.
US08029784B2
Methods for the treatment of tumors and cancer by exploiting the surface expression of the usually nuclear-localized protein, nucleolin.
US08029776B2
The present invention relates to a method to introduce a nucleic acid molecule into a felid by administration of a nucleic acid-cationic lipid complex composition. The method includes the step of administering to the felid, by a parenteral route, a nucleic acid-cationic lipid complex to elicit and/or enhance an immune response. In one embodiment, this method enhances the immune response in a felid compared to a method in which a naked DNA vaccine is administered to a felid. Also provided is a method to deliver a nucleic acid to a felid. This method comprises parenterally administering to the felid a composition that includes a nucleic acid molecule complexed with a cationic lipid.
US08029772B2
A free-flowing surfactant composition comprising at least one anionic surface-active agent, an alkanolamide, an electrolyte, and water is described. In particular, the composition is a surfactant composition that has free-flowing non-Newtonian shear thinning properties and the ability to suspend components and is stable under at least one freeze/thaw cycle.
US08029771B2
A compound having the following structure: where: R1 through R9 are each independently —H, —OH, an alkoxy group, an acyloxy group, an amino group, an amido group, a sulfate group, a sulfonate group, a phosphate group, a phosphonate group, or a silicone group having the following structure: where R10 through R11 are each independently —H or an alkyl group; and n and o are independently integers from 2 to 100, where at least one of R1 through R9 is an alkoxy group, acyloxy group, amino group, amido group, sulfate group, sulfonate group, phosphate group, phosphonate group, or silicone group.
US08029770B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing a caffeine salt complex and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for use in methods for preventing or treating cancer or solar dermatitis. Methods for inducing apoptosis or inhibiting proliferation in a cancer cell or cell which as UVB-induced DNA damage using a caffeine salt complex or methylated xanthine are also provided.
US08029769B2
A low-concentration formulation of an active enamel substance, such as an enamel matrix, enamel matrix derivative and/or an enamel matrix protein, is intended to be used as a therapeutic, as a prophylactic and/or as a cosmetic agent. The active enamel substance is incorporated into a polymeric matrix, which is either suitable for cellular in-growth, or is cell-occlusive, so that it is released by degradation of the polymeric matrix, by enzymatic action and/or by diffusion. A new pharmaceutical and/or cosmetic formulation of an active enamel substance is provided at a lower total concentration within the formulation, wherein a spatial and/or selective regulation of release of said active enamel substance permits a greater percentage of the active enamel substance to be released at the time of appropriate cellular activity.
US08029756B1
A closed loop bromosilane process is provided to provide semiconductor grade silicon through the thermal decomposition of tribromosilane. The resulting silicon tetrabromide byproduct from this thermal decomposition is recycled in a silicon tetrabromide converter to produce converted tribromosilane.
US08029752B2
The invention provides a method of controlling silica in the liquor circuit of the Bayer process. The method involves addition of a promoter material to enhance the precipitation of DSP and includes adding one or more silica dispersion materials or dry silica forms to those parts of the circuit where precipitation of DSP and removal of silica from solution is desirable; for example the desilication stage of a Bayer process plant. The removal of DSP from solution reduces silica concentration in the liquor and thereby enables better control of process issues such as silica contamination in alumina product and DSP formation in later stages of the process where precipitation as scale onto vessel walls and equipment is problematical. As a result, the invention provides a significant reduction in the total cost of operating a Bayer process.
US08029746B2
A parallel processing system for processing samples is described. In one embodiment, the parallel processing system includes an instrument interface parallel controller to control a tray motor driving system, a close-loop heater control and detection system, a magnetic particle transfer system, a reagent release system, a reagent pre-mix pumping system and a wash buffer pumping system.
US08029744B2
The present invention provides an apparatus for efficiently transporting or dispensing transport objects including not only particles but also liquid samples. A liquid in a first liquid transport pipe (3) is fed at a liquid feed velocity (V1), and a liquid droplet is formed toward an open end of a second liquid transport pipe (4) disposed with an air gap (11) in between. The particle is released into the liquid droplet, so that the particle is enclosed in the liquid droplet. Suction with a liquid feed velocity (V2) is applied to the inside of the second liquid transport pipe. Since the relationship between V1 and V2 is V1
US08029742B2
A hand-held, multi-channel pipettor has an electronically controlled motor to reposition pipette tips for different center to center spacing. Each repositionable tip fitting assembly has a cam following pin that is driven by cam tracks in a motor driven roller drum. Stationary ports for the multiple aspiration cylinders are strategically placed to simplify management of flexible tubes leading to the repositionable pipette tip fitting assemblies. The pipettor has a user interface that can be operated conveniently by one hand to reposition pipette tips. It has a pipette tip ejection mechanism with a sinusoidal stripper bar.
US08029736B2
Nitric oxide (NO) is oxidized into nitrogen dioxide (NO2) by the high temperature decomposition of a hydrogen peroxide solution to produce the oxidative free radicals, hydroxyl and hydroperoxyl. The hydrogen peroxide solution is impinged upon a heated surface in a stream of nitric oxide where it decomposes to produce the oxidative free radicals. Because the decomposition of the hydrogen peroxide solution occurs within the stream of the nitric oxide, rapid gas-phase oxidation of nitric oxide into nitrogen dioxide occurs.
US08029729B2
An object of the present invention is to solve the problems in conventional art antigen exposure chambers, and specifically, to provide an antigen exposure chamber system capable of simultaneously exposing a large number of test objects in a chamber to a uniform antigen (pollen, mite or house dust, etc.) in all seasons. In order to achieve the above object, in an antigen exposure chamber system according to the present invention, an outdoor air is supplied via an outdoor air diffuser 2 provided in a ceiling surface of an exposure chamber 1 into the exposure chamber from the ceiling surface of the exposure chamber in a horizontal direction, a fan unit 15, including a supply port and a suction port, is provided in each of the four corners of the exposure chamber to provide a circulating flow of air flowing with circulation in the horizontal direction in the exposure chamber, an air exhaust port 4 is provided at a floor surface of the exposure chamber to exhaust an air from the floor surface of the exposure chamber, an antigen is supplied from an antigen supply device to the outdoor air diffuser provided on the ceiling surface so that the antigen is mixed with the outdoor air, and a uniform concentration antigen exposure is enabled by the circulating flow of air.
US08029722B2
This publication discloses a method for creating nanoscale formations. According to the method, a filler matrix and first nanoparticles embedded in the filler matrix, and two conductive electrodes are superimposed on the insulating material layer. According to the invention, a voltage is applied between the conductive electrodes, a filler matrix is used and first nanoparticles have substantially different electrical properties in order to induce self-organized localized contact creation when said voltage is applied. Potential applications of the invention include e.g. parallel-plate capacitor structures based on metal-oxide nanoparticles, such as memory cells, and high-permittivity/tunable capacitors.
US08029715B2
An article of footwear including a mesh disposed on the outsole and an insert of the outsole is disclosed. The outsole includes tread elements that extend farther from the outsole than the mesh, providing protection to the mesh. Additionally, the mesh on the insert preferably helps reduce hyperextension of the front of the insert and the article of footwear.
US08029712B2
Mandrel supported IV tubing is inserted within a mold of a mold assembly to heat the IV tubing and form a tapered end of the tubing. The tip of the tubing extending beyond the tapered end of the tubing is severed by the mandrel bearing against the mold to lodge the tip in an outlet of the mold. Cooling air is introduced to the mold assembly to cool the mold and to create a flow of turbulent air about the outlet of the mold to extract the severed tips. The turbulent air is exhausted through a channel, pipe and fitting into a collection chamber and causes translation of the severed tip to and into the collection chamber. Sensors may be incorporated to sense the translation of the severed tips.
US08029710B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed that are useful for robotic gantry systems that are lightweight while at the same time offering rigidity or stiffness for implementation in Contour Crafting construction and material delivery techniques. The present disclosure is directed to robotic gantry system and material transport apparatus that use of very light structural members that have sufficient compressive strength, but which may otherwise be weak in the presence of bending forces, in conjunction with cables that provide stiffness against bending. Use of such cables provides needed tension while at the same time allowing the robotic gantry system to be very light compared to solid structures, e.g., those with I-beams, etc. Material delivery systems including passive articulated arms are also disclosed.
US08029708B2
A method of forming a varying pattern of optical elements on or in at least one side of an optical panel member involves cutting or forming a pattern or patterns of cavities in a cylindrical or curved substrate or in a sleeve or sleeve segment of the substrate that corresponds to a desired pattern and shape of optical elements to be formed on or in the optical member. The substrate or sleeve or sleeve segment containing the desired pattern or patterns of optical element shaped cavities or depositions or mirror copies or inverse copies thereof is used in production tooling or as a master for production tooling to form the corresponding pattern of optical elements on or in at least the one side of the optical panel member.
US08029701B2
There are disclosed a highly packed, mixed conductive powder with a relative packing density of at least 68%, a process for producing the same, a conductive paste using the mixed conductive powder and a process for producing the same, as well as a sheet and a sheet with attached film using the mixed conductive powder. This mixed conductive powder comprises substantially monodispersed conductive scale-like particles (A1) and conductive substantially spherical particles (B1). Or, this mixed conductive powder comprises substantially monodispersed, conductive, substantially spherical particles (A2) and conductive substantially spherical particles (B2) with a smaller particle diameter than that of the substantially spherical particles (A2).
US08029689B2
A process for preparing a high-purity quaternary ammonium salt comprising: (1) adding an oxide or hydroxide of a Group 1, 2, 12 or 13 metal to a quaternary ammonium salt containing a protonic acid salt of a tertiary amine as an impurity and thereby neutralizing the tertiary amine protonic acid salt with the metal oxide or hydroxide to convert the acid salt to a tertiary amine and water and to convert the metal oxide or hydroxide to a metal salt at the same time, and (2) removing the tertiary amine, water and metal salt produced from the system.
US08029686B2
The invention relates to a method of fabricating an ink jet nozzle. The method includes the steps of depositing and etching a passivation layer on a silicon substrate having drive circuitry and an interlayer dielectric interconnect to form a first sacrificial scaffold. Also included are the steps of depositing heater material over the first sacrificial scaffold and etching said heater material to define a heater element, and depositing and developing a layer of photoresist to define a second sacrificial scaffold defining sidewalls for a nozzle chamber. The method also includes the steps of depositing silicon nitride onto the second sacrificial scaffold to form a roof over the nozzle chamber, and etching a nozzle aperture through the roof down to the second sacrificial scaffold.
US08029680B2
A filtration apparatus and a filtration method are provided. The filtration apparatus includes a filter medium, a first filter layer of a first filter aid disposed on an upstream side of the filter medium, and a second filter layer of a second filter aid disposed on an upstream side of the first filter layer. The first filter aid has a particle size distribution primarily including coarse particles, a representative particle diameter of which is smaller than a representative dimension of openings in the filter medium. The first aid forms bridges over the openings. The second filter aid has a particle size distribution primarily including fine particles, which are smaller than the first filter aid and which themselves cannot form bridges over the openings. The openings of the filter medium and the particles of the second filter layer are adjusted in size by bridging phenomenon of the first filter aid.
US08029679B2
The present invention describes a system and method for supplying electrical power to a device, such as a filter element, located within a housing. In one embodiment, a conductive coil is embedded into the housing base, and a second coil is embedded into the filter element. Current is then passed through the coil in the housing base. Through induction, a current is created in the second coil in the filter element, in much the same way as a transformer functions. This inductive field may interfere with the operation of the various electronic functions, such as communications, sensing or other activities. To overcome this issue, an energy storage component, such as a capacitor, is included in the filter electronics. In this way, the power generated by the inductive field can be stored, and used when the inductive field is no longer present.
US08029669B2
Apparatus for treating a fluid in a conduit, comprising first and second core elements of magnetically conductive material adapted to be mounted to the conduit to surround same at spaced positions therealong; and means for establishing radio frequency magnetic fluxes in said core elements, for generating respective electromagnetic fields in the fluid to be treated extending from spaced positions along the conduit.
US08029666B2
A wastewater screening device includes a perforate screening member through which wastewater flows, including a plurality of laterally spaced apart screening rods interconnected by cross members, such that solids in the wastewater are captured by the screening member. A plurality of wiping elements are positioned between the screening rods and shift longitudinally to clear screenings from the screening member. Each of the wiping elements has at least one end projection disposed laterally between opposite sides of the screening member, and a tapered wiping surface.
US08029661B2
The determination of wax crystal particle size and population is used to monitor the performance of wax crystallizers used in lubricant oil processing using solvent dewaxing. The wax crystal particle size is monitored using online measurements. The information obtained from on-line monitoring is then used to control crystallization in the dewaxing equipment in order to optimize performance of the dewaxing units.
US08029659B2
A modification rate at a surface of an anode formed on a substrate is controlled. The anode is connected to a cathode comprised of a material having a higher nobility than the anode. An electrically conductive path is established between the anode and the cathode through an electrolyte to induce formation of an oxide layer at the anode surface that is more resistive to modification than the anode.
US08029658B2
The present invention concerns a device and a method for filtering molecules that is precise, efficient, reliable, and rapid; it has a low rate of molecular loss, it can be upgraded, and it provides for the automated filtration of molecules according to one or more predefined parameters. The device (10) for filtration of molecules (3) comprises three filtration zones (11a-11c), each equipped with filtration reservoirs (1) in which a solution containing molecules (3) to be filtered is placed. The filtration reservoirs (1) are separated into two chambers by an isoelectric filter (4) which allows only selective passage of molecules (3) according to their isoelectric point (pI) when they are subjected to an electrical field generated by electrodes (5). This filtration device (10) comprises a mechanized tool holder (20) specifically for supporting one or more pairs of electrodes (5) in order to perform isoelectric filtration in one or more filtration reservoirs (1) simultaneously.
US08029654B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a complex material in which an ion conduction film is curved and deformed when a potential difference is applied, which is operated at small electric power, has a large deformation amount, quick response performances, large degree of freedom in shape, and is easy in control of deformation, while having strength and durability necessary for practical use and being excellent in an economical aspect. A conductive cloth (preferably having stretchability), which is made conductive through plating of metal on a cloth or metal complex implantation, is joined as an electrode to both surfaces of the ion conduction film (the film in which an ion exchange film or ion liquid is immersed) made of a fluororesin and the like. When the potential difference is applied, the ion conduction film is deformed.
US08029650B1
A method for purifying used antifreeze is disclosed. An antifreeze recycling systems uses a simple-distillation apparatus adapted to distill clean antifreeze from used antifreeze. A novel scraper blade is used in the simple-distillation apparatus. Also, antifreeze recycling methods that minimize waste and generate nontoxic, landfillable waste are provided. An antifreeze product produced by the present method, and a nontoxic, landfillable sludge product produced by the present method, are disclosed.
US08029649B2
According to the invention, the loose coal is displaced from the peaks to the valleys of the waves on the narrow, long coal cake and is beaten down on the coal cake. The inventive device comprises at least one scraper (12) and at least one vertically movable impact plate (13) that are disposed one behind another and are fitted with a connection (7) to a holder. Furthermore, means are provided for generating a relative movement between the scraper (12) and the impact plate (13) and between the scraper (12) and a stamping form. The scraper (12) and the impact plate (13) are interconnected by means of a device frame (14) so as to form a structural unit (6) that is connected to the holder. Preferably, the structural unit (6) can be moved along the stamping form and is equipped with a drive unit. For this purpose, the holder encompasses a guide that extends along the stamping form as well as a carriage or a car which can be slid or moved on said guide and to which the unit (6) is connected with the aid of a boom.
US08029641B2
Method and device for wet treating a defined peripheral edge-region of a wafer-shaped article having a first surface plane W1, a second surface plane W2 and an edge surface. The device includes a support for holding the wafer-shaped article; liquid dispensing members for dispensing liquid onto the first surface plane W1 of the wafer-shaped article not facing the support and liquid guiding member connected to the support for guiding at least a part of the liquid around the edge surface of the wafer-shaped article towards the second surface plane W2 of the wafer-shaped article facing the support thereby wetting at least the edge surface, wherein the liquid guiding member has the form of a ring.
US08029640B2
A carrier head for a chemical mechanical polishing apparatus includes a retaining ring having a flexible lower portion and a rigid upper portion.
US08029639B2
A method of joining a pair of tubular ends (1, 2) comprises: providing the tubular ends with intermeshing tapered edges (3, 4); joining the tubular ends by inserting an adhesive between the tapered edges and pressing the tapered edges (3, 4) together; arranging an axial load carrier collar (5) around the joined tubular ends; inserting an adhesive between the inner surface of the collar (5) and the outer surfaces of the joined tubular ends (3, 4); and inducing the adhesive to bond the inner surface of the collar (5) to the outer surfaces of the joined tubular ends. The axial load carrier collar (5) may be equipped with a series of flexible reinforcement strips (8, 9), which carry a majority of axial loads exerted on the tubular joint, such that only a minimal axial load is exerted on the bonded tapered edges (3, 4).
US08029632B2
A belt package for a pneumatic vehicle tire has at least two belt plies. The belt plies are built up in at least two sub-packages, which are automatically placed on a belt drum and automatically spliced independently of one another. The sub-packages are then joined together to form the complete belt package.
US08029631B2
Disposable hygiene pants with a front portion (2), a rear portion (3) and a crotch portion (4) provided with two leg openings (5, 6), the longitudinal edge portions (21, 22) of the front portion being connected by longitudinal weld seams (7, 8) to the longitudinal edge portions (31, 32) of the rear portion (3) in order to form a waist opening (9) and two leg openings (5, 6) in the crotch portion, which leg openings are outwardly delimited in the transverse direction by the inner end portions of the weld seams as seen in the longitudinal direction of the hygiene pants. The hygiene pants have an outer cover (10) and comprise an absorption unit (11). The cover is preferably made of an elastic laminate. The weld seams (7, 8) are each reinforced by at least one reinforcing strip (15, 16) containing thermoplastic fibers and have a tensile strength, in a direction transverse to the weld seam, in excess of 5 N/25.4 mm at least in the portions reinforced with said nonwoven strip (15, 16).
US08029623B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include cleaning processes, cleaning machines, and methods of preventing acidification of a cleaning composition in a cleaning process. The cleaning process includes contacting an article having contaminants with a cleaning composition to remove the contaminants from the article, where the cleaning composition comes to have acidic components as a result of contacting the article with the cleaning composition, and where at least 85 percent by weight, based on a total weight of the cleaning composition, of the cleaning composition is an organic solvent, collecting the cleaning composition with the contaminants and the acidic components, separating the contaminants from the cleaning composition (114), and passing the cleaning composition with the acidic components over an ion exchange resin (125) to remove the acidic components from the cleaning composition.
US08029603B2
A pressure swing adsorption cycle designed to reduce the variations in ozone concentration, and produce a higher average ozone concentration, in a product gas stream throughout the cycle. The cycle includes a relatively long air sweep stage and provides for the overlapping of the air sweep stage in two adsorber vessels. Effluent from an adsorber vessel in a feed rinse stage is routed to another adsorber vessel that is in an air sweep stage.
US08029599B2
A layered structure can be formed having immobilized or segregated pH buffering groups that can be used to separate carbon dioxide or other gases. The pH buffering groups can be immobilized within a matrix, confined within a gel, or segregated by a semi-permeable membrane. The pH buffering groups can be configured to increase the efficiency of the system by maintaining a desirable pH profile within the cell and to permit the flow of the carbon-containing ions within the system while controlling diffusion of protons and/or hydroxyl ions.
US08029590B2
A collapsible filtration tank for a dust collector includes an outer frame, an engaging base and a filter. The outer frame is formed cylindrical, having plural meshes formed in its circumferential wall. The engaging base is formed annular, installed around the opening of the outer frame. The filter is inserted in a chamber of the outer frame and restrictively blocked by the blocking edge of the engaging base. Thus, the filter can be independently replaced with a new one instead of shifting the whole filtration tank.
US08029586B2
A filter pipeline for an air intake system of an internal combustion engine has a tubular body and a filter element arranged in the tubular body. The filter element is a filter bag of a flexible material that has an opening and is attachable in the area of the opening to the tubular body. The filter bag and an inner wall of the tubular body are shaped such that in a circumferential direction of the pipeline different spacings are provided between the filter bag and the inner wall of the tubular body.
US08029578B2
The present invention relates to hair colouring and hair bleaching compositions comprising at least one oxidizing agent, a specified gel network thickener system comprising a specified tertiary component system, and a polysaccharide and a polyol. The compositions surprisingly provide hair colourant and bleaching compositions which deliver lightening and colour which are easy to manufacture and improve adhesion of the composition to the hair roots.
US08029577B2
The present disclosure provides a method of lightening and/or colouring human keratin fibers using at least one first composition comprising at least one specific aminosilicon compound and at least one oxidizing composition. It also provides a composition containing less than 10% by weight of water comprising at least one specific aminosilicon compound and at least one fatty substance. It provides, lastly, a multiple-compartment device in which at least one compartment comprises the abovementioned composition, and at least one other compartment comprises an oxidizing composition.
US08029575B2
Implants, such as interbody spacers, fusion devices and bone grafts, are provided having improved mechanical properties and/or degradation profiles. Such implants include a three-dimensional scaffold formed from particles, such as microspheres, which may in some embodiments be resorbable or biodegradable and which may have at least two different degradation rates. In some embodiments, the scaffold may be elastomeric. The three-dimensional scaffold may be for example, porous or semi-porous. Also provided are kits including such implants, and methods of producing and using the same.
US08029571B2
Methods, systems and devices for preventing prosthetic articulating surfaces from separating from each other. A containment system according to one embodiment seeks to prevent an implant stem head from dislocating from a prosthetic component while providing an increased range of motion over conventional constrained components. In one embodiment, an implant structural member includes a cavity and an opening having a lip, including a web along a portion of the lip. An implant stem head has a cooperating surface that corresponds with the web, so that when the cooperating surface of the implant stem head is aligned with the web, the head may be inserted into the implant structural member. The implant stem head is then rotated and the femoral stem component attached, thereby preventing dislocation of the head.
US08029569B2
An implantable spinal disk including an external shell, first endplate, second endplate and core component. The external shell includes sidewalls, a back wall, a front wall, a top surface and a bottom surface forming a compartment. The first endplate includes a first base, first top and first attachment devices. The first base is disposed in the compartment. The first top is disposed in a first opening in the top surface. The first attachment devices extend from within the first top portion. The second endplate includes a second base, second top and second attachment devices. The second base is disposed in the compartment. The second top is disposed in a second opening in the bottom surface. The second attachment devices extend from the second top. The core component is disposed in the compartment between the first endplate and the second endplate.
US08029568B2
An intervertebral spacer device having a pair of opposing plates for seating against opposing vertebral bone surfaces. Each of the opposing plates has an external surface with a deflectable wire mesh thereon, into which the bone can readily grow.
US08029557B2
An esophageal valve comprising a polymeric valve body having an outer support region, at least three valve leaflets, and a main body region extending between the support region and the valve leaflets. The valve has a normally closed configuration in which the valve is closed, an antegrade open configuration in which the valve leaflets are opened in response to an antegrade force to allow flow through the valve and a retrograde open configuration in response to a retrograde force which is substantially larger than the antegrade force.
US08029555B2
A stent delivery system for positioning a first and second stent the first and second branch lumens of a bifurcation. The stent delivery system includes stent introducers and a sheath or catheter having a frangible wall. A method of delivering stents to anatomies such as bifurcated ducts or vessels.
US08029554B2
An endoprosthesis such as a stent is composed of a metal or ceramic, such as Irox, embedded in the stent material.
US08029549B2
A method includes positioning a medical device within a body between adjacent spinous processes, moving the medical device from a collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration within the body using an actuator removably coupled to the medical device, and removing the actuator from the body while the medical device remains between the adjacent spinous processes.
US08029548B2
Systems and devices for providing dynamic stabilization of one or more spinal motion segments are provided. The systems include a connecting element between two or more bone anchor assemblies that can be attached to two or more vertebral bodies of at least one spinal motion segment. The connecting element includes a first end, a second end, an intermediate resilient element and a sheathed tether extending from the first end to the second end and through the resilient intermediate element.
US08029544B2
In various embodiments, a spinal stabilization system has a first and a second vertebral anchor each adapted to be coupled to one of a first and a second vertebrae. The system also includes a flexible connecting element coupled to each of the first and second vertebral anchors and extending between the vertebral anchors. The connecting element has a central member and a brace positioned about the central member and the central member is stiffer than the brace to provide the needed combination of support and stiffness to the construct while offering flexibility. These and other various embodiments of this invention offer an improvement over known systems by providing stabilization of the vertebral column while allowing for flexibility and axial dampening.
US08029538B2
The infant mouthpiece includes a U-shaped mouth mold for inserting into the mouth of the infant, wherein the mouth mold comprises a top, a bottom, a center, a distal end, a proximal end, and a plurality of ridges disposed along the top of the mouth mold. The infant mouthpiece further includes a female portion of a plug and a stopper, wherein the stopper comprises a proximal side, a distal side, and a center. The mouth mold, the stopper, and the female portion of the plug are connected such that the proximal end of the mouth mold is connected to the distal side of the stopper and the proximal side of the stopper is connected to the female portion of the plug.
US08029535B2
A fastener is used during endoscopic procedures in which a suture is used in creating a predefined pouch through tissue apposition within the stomach. The fastener includes a fastener body having a tissue anchor for selectively securing the fastener body to tissue. The fastener body also includes a connection aperture shaped and dimensioned for passage of a suture therethrough.
US08029531B2
A surgical instrument that includes an instrument shaft having proximal and distal ends, a tool disposed from the distal end of the instrument shaft, a control handle disposed from the proximal end of the instrument shaft, a distal motion member for coupling the distal end of the instrument shaft to the tool, a proximal motion member for coupling the proximal end of the instrument shaft to the handle, actuation means extending between the distal and proximal motion members for coupling motion of the proximal motion member to the distal motion member for controlling the positioning of the tool, a rotation knob disposed adjacent the control handle and rotatable relative to the control handle for causing a corresponding rotation of the instrument shaft and tool and a locking mechanism for fixing the position of the tool at a selected position and having locked and unlocked states. The rotation knob has a first position in which the locking mechanism is controlled to be in its locked state and a second position in which the locking mechanism is released to its unlocked state so as to allow tool positioning.
US08029524B1
A flexible inner tubular member for rotation within an angled outer tubular member of a rotary tissue cutting instrument includes a distal end having a cutting element, a proximal end connectible with a powered surgical handpiece, and a flexible coupling between the distal end and the proximal end for transmitting torque to rotate the cutting element while conforming to the angled configuration of the outer member. The flexible coupling comprises inner, middle and outer spiral members, each formed of a flat strip of material, alternately wound in opposite rotational directions. The strips of material that form the inner and outer spiral members have a width intentionally and measurably different from the width of the strip of material that forms the middle spiral member.
US08029523B2
A device includes a tubular element, and a cutter spring-biased relative to the tubular element. In an unloaded configuration the cutter is displaced relative to the tubular element by a displacement distance, and when the cutter is in a loaded configuration the displacement distance is reduced. A first structure is longitudinally fixed relative to the cutter and rotationally engaged relative to the tubular element. A length of the first structure extends proximally in the unloaded configuration. A second structure is longitudinally displaceable relative to the first structure. In the loaded configuration, a driver engages and rotates both the first and second structures, and thus the tubular element and cutter together. Once the cutter breaks through the bone, the cutter spring-biased into the unloaded configuration, resulting in disengagement of the first structure from the driver to prevent rotation of either the tubular element or the cutter.
US08029518B2
The present invention provides methods and devices for grasping, and optional repositioning and fixation of the valve leaflets to treat cardiac valve regurgitation, particularly mitral valve regurgitation. Such grasping will typically be atraumatic providing a number of benefits. For example, atraumatic grasping may allow repositioning of the devices relative to the leaflets and repositioning of the leaflets themselves without damage to the leaflets. However, in some cases it may be necessary or desired to include grasping which pierces or otherwise permanently affects the leaflets. In some of these cases, the grasping step includes fixation.
US08029514B2
A bone screw removal system for a bone screw retaining system that includes an implant having a plate, which defines a plurality of transversely extending bores that are configured to receive a bone screw for engaging the plate to the cervical spine, and an elastically deformable spring member positioned therein a cavity of the plate such that portions of the spring member can extend into a portion of an upper region of each of the bores of a pair of opposing bores, the spring member being movable between a first relaxed, expanded position and a second, compressed position. The bone screw removal system having at least one tongue member that is configured to selectively act on the spring member of the bone screw retaining system.
US08029511B2
A method and apparatus for fluidly coupling a reservoir containing a flowable biomaterial to a mold. The flow of the flowable biomaterial into the mold is controlled in accordance with a first operating parameter. At least one injection condition is monitored. The flow of the flowable biomaterial is controlled in accordance with a second operating parameter in response to one or more of the injection conditions reaching a threshold level. The second operating parameter is maintained during at least a portion of the curing of the flowable biomaterial. In some embodiments, the second operating parameter may optionally include permitting a portion of the flowable biomaterial to be expelled from the mold.
US08029505B2
An external fixation system for connecting one or more bone segments together to facilitate healing of bone. The system may include one or more rings and/or ring segments. One or more linear distractors and/or angular distractors may connect the rings to each other so as to allow for distraction and/or reduction/compression of a bone. Linear distractors may enable an operator to move the rings towards and away from each other, while angular distractors may enable an operator to angle the rings relative to each other. In an embodiment using angular distractors, one or more angular separation assemblies may be positioned between the rings. These separation assemblies may have joints which may two portions which may be angled relative to each other and connected directly or indirectly to the rings. Various fasteners (e.g., nuts) and/or tightening members may configured for quick movement along and selective tightening to various components. Moreover, clamps may be attached to the rings and may engage pins, wire, rods, which may be inserted into bone to hold bone segments to each other. The components of the external fixation system may be provided in sets or kits so that the a surgeon may select various combinations of components to create an external fixation system which is configured specifically for the particular needs of a patient and the bone fracture/deformity.
US08029501B2
The present invention provides a method of laser processing of materials, specifically laser induced ablation processes for laser removal of material particularly important in medical and dental applications in which the laser removal of material should be done in such a way as to not damage any of the surrounding soft or hard biomaterial. The ablation process is achieved by impulsive heat deposition (IHD) by direct and specific excitation of short lived vibrations or phonons of the material in such a way as to not generate highly reactive and damaging ions through multiphoton absorption. The heat deposition and ensuing ablation process under prescribed time and wavelength conditions for laser irradiation is achieved faster than heat transfer to surrounding tissue by either acoustic or thermal expansion or thermal diffusion that otherwise would lead to excess heat related damage. The result is that all the deposited laser energy is optimally channelled into the ablation process in which the inertially confined stresses from both photomechanical expansion forces and thermally driven phase transitions and associated volume changes constructively interfere to drive the most efficient ablation process possible with minimal damage to surrounding areas by either ionizing radiation or heat effects. By choosing a specific range of wavelengths, spatial and temporal shaping of infrared laser pulses, the energy can be optimally deposited in a manner that further increases the efficiency of the ablation process with respect to minimizing collateral damage.
US08029500B2
The present invention relates to a method for generating a control program for ophthalmologic LASIK surgery, with which a pulsed laser system (12, 14, 16) can be controlled for the photodisruptive cutting of a flap, having the following steps: obtaining empirical data, which relate to the effect in particular of flap shapes and ablation profiles on postoperative refractive results, obtaining measurement data relating to the eye to be treated, calculating an optimal cutting shape for the photodisruptive cutting of the flap by taking into account the said empirical data and the said measurement data, and generating the control program on the basis of the calculated cutting shape.
US08029498B2
A reduced pressure delivery system for applying a reduced pressure to a tissue site includes a manifold delivery tube having at least two lumens and a manifold having a plurality of flow channels. The manifold is disposed within a first of the lumens of the manifold delivery tube. A balloon having an inner space and being capable of assuming collapsed and expanded positions is provided. The inner space of the balloon is fluidly connected to a second of the lumens of the manifold delivery tube.
US08029494B2
A method of removing an obstruction in the biliary duct including the steps of providing a coaxial catheter device comprising an inner catheter having a proximal end and a distal end wherein at least two or more lumens are formed between the proximal end and distal end of the inner catheter. The method includes providing an outer catheter having a proximal end and a distal end and an opening wherein the inner catheter is coaxially engaged through the opening of the outer catheter thereby forming a coaxial space between the inner catheter and the outer catheter wherein at least one of the two or more lumens is configured for receiving a fluid for inflating a balloon, at least one of the first lumen and the second lumen is configured for receiving a wire guide and the coaxial space is configured for receiving a flushing fluid for the removal of an obstruction within the biliary duct.
US08029492B2
A tube of a medical device is inserted into the lung of a patient through a passage, sealed from the pleural cavity, which passes through the chest wall, parietal membrane and visceral membrane into the lung. A flange of the medical device is secured to the chest of the patient. Thus secured, a proximal opening of the tube is positioned within the lung of the patient and an external opening is positioned external to the patient, permitting gasses within the lung of the patient to escape through the chest wall by entering the distal opening, passing through the tube and venting to atmosphere through the proximal opening.
US08029489B2
In a body adhering absorbent article, an absorbent structure is configured for disposition adjacent a female wearer's vaginal region to absorb bodily fluids discharged by the wearer. A shell supports the absorbent structure at the vaginal region and has an adhesive on a body-facing surface thereof for adhering the shell directly to the wearer. A placement aid is disposed on at least one of the absorbent structure and the shell, and is configured for sensory perception by a wearer of the article upon placement of the article on the wearer to facilitate positive alignment of the absorbent article in a target placement region of the wearer with the absorbent structure disposed adjacent the wearer's vaginal region.
US08029488B2
A disposable pull-on diaper having a wearer-facing surface and a garment-facing surface; a longitudinal centerline and a lateral centerline; a front waist region, a back waist region, and a crotch region disposed between the front and back waist regions. The front waist region and back waist region of the pull-on diaper interconnect to form a waist opening and leg openings. The pull-on diaper includes an absorbent assembly and an elastic belt. The absorbent assembly includes a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and backsheet. The elastic belt may exhibit less than about 80% of the maximum force after 15 seconds as measured by the Percent Release Test.
US08029487B2
An absorbent article having front, crotch and rear portions and an absorbent core of unitary construction. The core has a first region with two legs extending in the longitudinal direction of the article through at least parts of the crotch portion towards endings in the rear portion. A maximum distance between facing sides of the legs in the transverse direction is, in the crotch portion, located at a position in the longitudinal direction corresponding to a crotch point. Furthermore, the facing sides of the legs converge backwards such that a distance between them is reduced from the maximum distance to a minimum distance in the rear portion. In addition, the core has a second region surrounding the first region and the average density of the core is lower in the second region than in the first region.
US08029484B2
A two-way stretch disposable diaper formed from four cooperating layers, a microfiber top layer to keep the wearer dry, an absorbent pad to collect body exudates, a waterproof layer to keep absorbed fluids within the pad, and a two-way stretch outer support layer. The top layer is formed as a cover for the absorbent pad which is designed to absorb urine and semi-liquid fecal material. The absorbent pad is backed by the waterproof layer or sheet which also covers the pad edges to prevent side leakage. The waterproof layer is anchored to a self-adhesive, two-way stretch support layer which constitutes an outer cover or support layer. The support layer derives its two way stretch and self adhesive qualities from its weave of alternate twist and/or crinkle threads. The support layer includes a plurality of holes in the waist band area which provide added ventilation and drainage when the diaper is used as swim-wear.
US08029468B2
A dual reservoir fluid dispensing apparatus for use in controllably dispensing fluid medicaments, such as antibiotics, analgesics and like medicinal agents from either or both of the device reservoirs. The fluid dispensing apparatus includes novel fill means for selectively filling each of the reservoirs with the same or different medicaments that are to be dispensed to the patient. Stored energy sources are provided in the form of a pair of constant force spring members of novel design that provide the force necessary to continuously and substantially uniformly expel fluid from the reservoirs. The apparatus also includes novel adjustable flow rate assemblies that are disposed intermediate the outlet port of the fluid reservoirs and the outlet port of the device for precisely controlling the rate of fluid flow from the outlet port toward the patient.
US08029466B2
A vasoocclusive coil is reinforced with a stretch resistant member to improve safety during retraction of the coil. The stretch resistant member is fixedly attached at one end to the vasoocclusive coil, and the other end of the stretch resistant member is detachably mounted to an elongated pusher member to allow for placement and release of the vasoocclusive coil within the patient's vasculature.
US08029462B2
A medical catheter assembly and method of using the same. In one embodiment, the assembly comprises a gastrostomy feeding tube having a proximal end, a distal end and a longitudinal bore, the distal end being shaped to include an internal bolster, the internal bolster having an anchoring state and a non-anchoring state. A suture extends from the internal bolster through the longitudinal bore to exit the tube at its proximal end, proximal displacement of the suture maintaining the internal bolster in its anchoring state. A protective sleeve made of a rigid material is removably insertable into the tube through its proximal end, the suture being inserted through the protective sleeve. The protective sleeve, when inserted into the tube, serves to protect the suture from being cut when the tube is cut to a desired length after having been implanted in a patient.
US08029461B2
The Access guide catheter provides passage for therapeutic and diagnostic devices through vessels or conduits that return substantially in a direction from which they originated. One application is for delivery of therapeutic catheters to the carotid or cerebral arteries via access from the radial or brachial artery. The guide catheter enters the aorta from one of the great vessels, forms a closed loop in the aorta, and is directed back into a great vessel in an opposed direction. The distal portion of the guide catheter is advanced into the great vessel for support. Further support is attained by providing tension to the proximal shaft of the guide catheter. Flexibility of the guide catheter allows diagnostic angiograms to be performed prior to delivery of a therapeutic catheter or device.
US08029460B2
Method and system for integrating infusion device and analyte monitoring system including medication infusion device such as an insulin pump and an analyte monitoring system such as a glucose monitoring system are provided.
US08029452B2
A support for sonographers provides a path of force transmission from an ultrasound probe to the sonographer's upper arm bypassing the wrist, and thus reducing wrist injuries that can come from the need to tightly grip and restrain an ultrasound probe for long periods of time.
US08029451B2
A compression sleeve is described as having a first sheet, a second sheet attached to said first sheet and defining at least one inflatable section, and at least one conduit disposed within the boundary of the least one of said inflatable sections.
US08029448B2
Breathing interval measurement apparatus for measuring breathing of a subject, the apparatus comprising: a breathing interval beginning determinator, a breathing interval end determinator, and a timer associated with said breathing interval beginning determinator and said breathing interval end determinator to measure an interval between activation of said determinators, and a processor operable with said timer to assign levels of importance to said measured time interval.
US08029446B2
An ultrasonic imaging system includes an imaging catheter and an imaging apparatus. The imaging catheter has an insert for being inserted into a blood vessel, a transducer disposed in the insert, and at least one temperature sensor disposed in the insert. The temperature sensor measures the intravascular temperature in a radial direction of the blood vessel and rotates to measure an intravascular temperature distribution in a transverse cross section of the blood vessel. The diagnostic imaging apparatus has an ultrasonic signal receiver for receiving an ultrasonic signal measured by the transducer, a temperature signal receiver for receiving an intravascular temperature signal measured by the temperature sensor, and an image constructing unit for constructing an image to be displayed from a tomographic vascular image generated from the ultrasonic signal and intravascular temperature information generated from the intravascular temperature signal, in relation to positional information of the ultrasonic signal and the intravascular temperature signal.
US08029445B2
A method and apparatus for processing ultrasonic image signals is disclosed. The method involves receiving a plurality of input sample values representing reflected sound waves in a ultrasonic system, exponentiating each input sample to produce a plurality of respective exponentiated sample values, conditioning the exponentiated sample values to produce conditioned exponentiated sample values for receipt by an imageformer, and causing the imageformer to produce an image representing the ultrasonic sound waves in response to the conditioned exponentiated sample values.
US08029443B2
A glucose meter module integrated into a holster device that can securely accommodate another device such as a portable server device or an insulin pump is described. The glucose measuring module and the health device communicate with each other by a short range wireless modality. In the case in which the accommodated device is a server, such as personal digital assistant or cell phone, the device stores data in a memory, displays data on a visual display, and can wirelessly transmit such data to other devices within a personal area network. In the case where the accommodated device is a cell phone, the phone can further transmit data to remote sites. In the case where the accommodated device is an insulin pump, wirelessly received data are stored in a memory, are available for visual display on the insulin pump, and can be incorporated into the electronic processes that regulate the performance of the pump.
US08029428B2
A machine and method for making bags is described and includes a web traveling from an input section to a rotary drum, to an output section. The rotary drum includes at least one seal bar, having a single sealing zone, and a weakening zone disposed within the single sealing zone. The single sealing zone may be a heated perforator, and may include a heating wire. The heating wire may be an NiCr wire stitched into the heater, and be disposed on a cap or on the seal bar. The weakening zone may create a line of weakness that is uniform or varies in intensity. The sealing zone may include temperature zones, cartridge heaters, cooling air, or heated air, or a source of ultrasonic, microwave or radiative energy.
US08029425B2
A portable multipurpose whole body exercise device which can be used for general fitness, Pilates-type, core strengthening, therapeutic, and rehabilitative exercises as well as stretching and physical therapy and which includes storable accessories that can be withdrawn from storage within the device and subsequently secured to the main tubular portion of the apparatus. The storable accessories can be used for a variety of resistance, stretching, and strength training exercises.
US08029424B2
A training machine for strength training and rehabilitation includes: a machine frame, a weight carrying frame, a weight package carried by the weight carrying frame, pull or press elements which are turnably provided on the machine frame and which are arranged to be moved backwards and forwards while a selected pre-determined number of weights in the weight package is arranged to be turned about a first axis, alternatively, by connection elements connected to the pull or press elements, and drive members to lift weights by a first force and to lower the weights by a second force, the first force being less than the second force, the weight carrying frame being turnable on the machine frame about a substantially horizontal second axis and the first and second axes being substantially perpendicular to each other.
US08029423B2
The present invention relates generally to exercise equipment and more specifically, to an isometric exercise apparatus and a storage rack therefor. The isometric exercise apparatus includes a frame which has a base and a sidewall joined to the base. The base has an exercise platform for supporting a user's body. Also provided is a restraint arm assembly connected to the frame. The arm restraint assembly includes a swing arm pivotally connected to the base, a restraint arm carried by the swing arm and positionable above the exercise platform to inhibit movement of a portion of the user's body so as to allow the user to perform isometric exercises. An indexing assembly is provided to fix the swing arm in a predetermined angular position selected from a set of discrete angular positions relative to the base. At least one limb restraint accessory is positionable at predetermined locations along the base for inhibiting movement of the user's limb so as to allow the user to perform isometric exercises. The apparatus can rapidly be adapted or configured to target a plurality of joint angles to work different muscle groups (or different muscles within the same muscle group) for an enhanced isometric workout.
US08029417B2
An elliptical exercise machine allowing a user to move between a first position (standing on a stationary platform and using the machine's exercise arms), a second position (using the machine's footskates and holding a stationary handlebar), and a third position (using the machine's footskates and exercise arms), or any variation thereon. The machine may include a computer that directs the user's movements between those positions and others.
US08029413B2
A wheel assembly for attachment to the leg of a trampoline has means for moving the wheel from a first raised position where the wheel is not supporting the trampoline leg above the ground, to a second position where the wheel is supporting the trampoline leg above the ground. In that way the trampoline can be rolled on wheels without having to subsequently remove the wheel assemblies for storage.
US08029409B2
A method of preventing unauthorized movement of a transmission shift mechanism comprises the steps of: detecting a predefined event; moving a locking device into an engaged position with a shift mechanism upon the occurrence of the predefined event to retain the shift mechanism in at least one of a park, reverse, neutral, and drive position; and maintaining an ignition system in a substantially off position during the detecting of the event and the moving of the locking device into the engaged position. A vehicle assembly is also provided comprising the transmission shift mechanism and the locking device coupled to the shift mechanism. The vehicle assembly also includes the ignition system, which is movable between off, accessory, run, and start positions, and a controller with the controller energizing the locking device in response to the predefined event to move the locking device into the locked position while the ignition system remains substantially in the off position.
US08029405B2
A gear train of an automatic transmission for vehicles has two simple planetary gear sets and one compound planetary gear set with four clutches and three brakes to achieve ten forward speeds and three reverse speeds.
US08029402B2
A transmission is provided having an input member, an output member, three planetary gear sets, a plurality of coupling members and a plurality of torque transmitting devices. Each of the planetary gear sets includes first, second and third members. The torque transmitting devices include clutches and brakes.
US08029396B2
A derailleur including an articulated quadrilateral mechanism, having four parallel articulation axes is provided. At a first articulation axis, between a fixed member and a first connecting rod, the fixed member includes a first forked structure embracing the first connecting rod. The first forked structure includes two opposite flanges having respective holes aligned along the first articulation axis, and the first connecting rod includes a hole aligned with the first articulation axis. A pin is inserted through the two holes of the first forked structure and the first connecting rod. The use of the fixed member creates a more favorable distribution of the stresses induced in the first connecting rod and the pin by the traction of the derailleur control cable.
US08029389B2
A ball-hitting trainer is provided with a base combined with a flexible shaft that may bend in all directions. The flexible shaft is structured with a helical spring and a flexible wire. The flexible wire is wound around an outside gap of the helical spring so as to make the flexible wire helical and wrap the whole helical spring. The body of flexible shaft is covered by a plurality of shock absorbers, and a free end of the flexible shaft is connected to a cup-shaped body; thus the ball-hitting trainer is formed and a ball may be placed in the cup-shaped body for practice of ball hitting.
US08029381B2
Described is a portable and intuitive golf swing improvement device for indicating the proper shift of a golfer's body weight to the front foot during a down swing. More specifically, the swing improvement device measures the shift of the golfer's body weight during a golf swing and indicates when such shift is in accordance with a technically sound swing. Additionally, the swing improvement device is self-sufficient and portable such that the device is deployable almost anywhere. The swing improvement device also provides swing analysis in a manner that is immediately understandable to the golfer.
US08029369B2
A gaming system including a chair having a base and a mechanical connector mounted to the base, and a gaming machine having a rotary locking mechanism to mate with the mechanical connector of the chair to latch the base to the gaming machine. The gaming machine and base can include an electrical connection.
US08029368B2
A method for entertaining event attendees involves installing electronic equipment in a mobile entertainment environment and then transporting the mobile electronic environment to an event location. At the event location, event attendees are provided with temporary authorization and access to the mobile entertainment environment and subsequently entertained. At the conclusion of the entertainment, temporary authorization and access is revoked and the mobile electronic environment is removed from the event location. For storage, electronic equipment can be removed from the entertainment environment and placed in a secure location. The mobile entertainment environment preferably is a trailer pulled by a delivery vehicle, such as a pickup truck. The trailer has multiple entry points and contains comfortable seating for event attendees and multiple entertainment stations. At each entertainment station attendees can play games or watch DVDs using one of several gaming systems and their corresponding peripherals. Large video displays and audio equipment enhance the experience at each entertainment station. Interactive gaming can be experienced among multiple players at a single station, among players at different stations, or by connected to the internet for interactive play with remote players. Additional features of the entertainment environment include security cameras, exterior video displays for the benefit of attendees not in the trailer, stabilizers to minimize motion sickness within the trailer, and a video controller for providing master control of all of the video displays.
US08029365B2
A system, apparatus and method for gaming-related communications in a hierarchical multi-tiered system are described herein. In some embodiments, a method includes transmitting a master configuration from a central operations of a hierarchical multi-tiered system to a local gaming site having one or more gaming components. The method also includes receiving a selected configuration for one or more of the gaming components based on the master configuration. The method includes downloading the selected configuration to the one or more of the gaming components through the hierarchical multi-tiered system.
US08029360B2
A gaming system (40) according to the present invention includes a number of gaming machines (10), each gaming machine including a single player game presentation arrangement that may be reconfigured to provide any one of a number of game presentations. In addition to the gaming machines (10) the present gaming system (40) includes a system configuration arrangement (51) and a game modification controller (50). The system configuration arrangement (51) produces system configuration commands based either on manual inputs, system usage information, or various information related to one or more players in a gaming facility. The game modification controller (50) included in preferred forms of the gaming system receives the system configuration commands and in response to the commands, communicates presentation switching instructions to one or more gaming machines (10) included in the system.
US08029359B2
A method of rewarding a game player of a game can target particular types of offers to a player. A usage profile is determined for the player, which can be based on interaction between the player and items or goals in a game. Player information is identified, such as player statistics or categorization of the player. A category is selected for the player, based on the usage profile and the player information for the player. An offer is then selected from a group of offers, wherein the offer is for a real world object, service or event.
US08029356B2
Disclosed is a non-transitive casino game which utilizes a group of non-transitive gaming devices, One embodiment uses dice. Accordingly, each pair of dice has advantage over one other pair of non-transitive dice in the group. Each pair of dice has a different color to allow a banker or dealer to identify the hierarchy of the dice. In a table game version, a player first selects one pair of non-transitive dice from a group of non-transitive dice. A dealer then selects one of the remaining pair of the non-transitive dice. The dealer's selection ensures the dealer dice have a better than fifty percent advantage over the player-selected dice, neglecting any ties. A game comprises the player rolling the player-selected dice and the dealer rolling the dealer selected dice three successive times. Each of the player roll outcomes are compared to the corresponding dealer roll outcomes. Players are able to wager on either the player or dealer, and on a number of ties and other related outcomes. Another embodiment employs non-transitive card decks. The method of play is exactly the same as in the dice embodiment, except that the card decks must be shuffled after every card is dealt.
US08029348B2
A game apparatus includes a video game machine. A CPU provided in the video game machine controls movements, etc. of a player character operated by a player. There exist a predetermined number of player characters (e.g., four persons), and all of them are assigned to players depending on the number thereof. For example, four player characters are assigned to one player in a 1P mode, and two player characters each are assigned to two players in a 2P mode. While playing a game, each player may change formations of the four player characters or plunder a player character existing in an array belonging to another player.
US08029343B2
A battery pack cooling and body pressure relief system for a vehicle having a passenger cabin is disclosed. The system may include an intake air flow duct connected between the passenger cabin and the battery pack, and an air flow duct connected between the exhaust air outlet and the body pressure relief valve. The system may include a one-way cabin pressure relief vent connected to the air flow duct and configured to selectively allow for air flow into the air flow duct, and may include a duct pressure relief vent connected to the air flow duct and configured to selectively allow for air flow out of the air flow duct into the vehicle.
US08029301B2
An electrical fixture having a front side and a back side and defining longitudinal, lateral, and transverse directions substantially orthogonal to one another. The electrical fixture may include a body, a flange, and at least one anchor. The body may have at least one terminal extending laterally to the exterior thereof. The flange may extend laterally and longitudinally from the body to substantially preclude transverse access to the terminal from the front side of the electrical fixture. The at least one anchor may transversely extend from the flange to provide securement with a connection box.
US08029286B2
The present invention is directed to dental compositions that can be used as adhesives for bonding a dental material to a dental structure surface and/or as a dental restorative material. The dental composition is preferably applied to a dental structure surface under conditions effective to etch the dental structure surface.
US08029285B2
The present invention relates to a screw implant (1) for insertion into a bore hole (50) arranged in bone tissue, said implant having a cancellous portion (3), and a cortical portion (2) having an axial length such that, when installed in the bore hole (50), the engagement of said cortical portion (2) with the bone tissue will generally be confined to the cortical bone tissue layer (52). Said cortical portion (2) presents an outer surface which is threaded for accomplishing said engagement, and has an outer design such that, when being screwed into said bore hole under action of a screwing torque, said cortical portion (2) acts so as to increase the compression of the cortical bone tissue only, in essentially radial directions of the implant, resulting in a distinct increase of the screwing torque needed for screwing the implant (1). Said increase is usable as an indication that the implant (1) is in place or nearly in place in the bore hole.The invention also relates to an arrangement comprising an implant and a bore hole, and a method for insertion of an implant into a bore hole.
US08029272B1
This invention relates to a self-activated automatic candle snuffer. The device generally comprises a back plate connected to a base and to a spoon having a hole so that the back plate supports the spoon for spring movement with respect to the base. A candle mounted to the base so that the candle passes through the hole in the spoon. A set pin movably affixed to the spoon proximate the hole, operatively arranged to pierce and enter the candle so as to maintain tension in the spoon. A ball balanced on the spoon and a means for release of tension in the spoon which causes release of potential energy that allows the spoon to elevate to an inclined plane to cause the ball to roll down the spoon to settle on the hole and the wick and extinguish a flame.
US08029271B2
A self-cleaning burner system incorporates an automatic clean cycle when the burner is started up. Cycles may be programmed for once-a-day cleaning cycle or for other desired interval. On start-up, the cycle routes a small amount of fuel to the burner for ignition inside the burner to clean the burner surfaces. The system incorporates an igniter for fast, routine, and safe ignition of the fuel. Thus, small amounts of debris that accumulate on a surface burner are automatically ignited when the burner is started, keeping the burner clean and operating at a high state of efficiency at all times. The self-cleaning burner system may be incorporated into a fryer or other heating appliance for reliable, efficient operation.
US08029270B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for blow-moulding containers from preforms which have been previously heated in a heating section and consist of a thermoplastic material. After being heated, said preforms are transferred to a blowing device in which they are deformed in order to form containers under the action of a blowing pressure inside blow moulds. The blow moulds respectively consist of at least two blow-moulding segments. The preforms are transported together with the blow moulds at least along part of a path of a rotating blow wheel. The blow-moulding segments are braced in relation to each other during at least part of the blow-moulding process. At least one of the blow-moulding segments is pivoted about a rotational axis in order to perform opening and closing movements. Once a blowing station holding the blow-moulding segments is closed, at least one of the blow-moulding segments is then supported, at a distance from the rotational axis and independently from the other blow-moulding segment, in relation to a counter-bearing connected to the blow wheel. The supported blow-moulding segment is at least partially braced in relation to both the counter-bearing and the other blow-moulding segment.
US08029267B2
An ejector apparatus moves a lift core extending through a core of a component of a resin molding mold to form an undercut portion in a molded piece and is installed so as to be capable of moving obliquely with respect to the core surface in a longitudinal direction. An ejector plate is arranged between the core and a base plate below the core, so as to be capable of moving up and down. A slide path is formed in the ejector plate extending in a direction in which a lower end of the lift core makes relative horizontal movement during ascent and descent of the lift core. A slide base is movably arranged in the slide path and coupled to the lower end of the lift core. A guide rod imparts a moving force within the slide path to the lower end of the lift core during ascent and descent of the ejector plate.
US08029264B2
An injection molding machine includes supporting plates, molds coupled to the supporting plates, and a coupling guide device to guide the coupling of the molds and the supporting plates. The coupling guide device includes a first coupling guide recess and a first coupling guide protrusion provided at center portions of the molds and the supporting plates so as to be coupled to each other, and a second coupling guide recess and a second coupling guide protrusion provided at the molds and the supporting plates, spaced apart from the first coupling guide recess and the first coupling guide protrusion, so as to be coupled to each other. The second coupling guide recess is formed lengthwise in a direction toward a periphery from the center portions of the molds and the supporting plates.
US08029261B2
A transfer board for transferring a columnar primary compression molded product which is supplied continuously one by one vertically in a shooter into a mortar of a secondary tablet compression machine, having at least an inclined portion having a plane-state inclined face, an input portion adjacent thereto, a portion for limiting drop of primary compression molded product, and a bottom plate provided at a lower part of the input portion, the inclined face being inclined so as to become lower toward the input portion, the inclined portion and the adjacent input portion performing a linear motion or rotary motion at a constant speed horizontally in a direction opposite to the input portion, and the input portion and the bottom plate being able to supply the primary compression molded product into the mortar of the secondary tablet compression machine while the columnar direction is kept substantially in a state of the horizontal direction.
US08029259B2
An array of nozzles is disclosed for forming multiple cellulose fibers. Each nozzle has a longitudinal central axis and includes a tube with a cross-section having a diameter through which an aqueous solution of cellulose and a solvent can be extruded into a molten filament. A first opening is present which surrounds each of the tubes. The first opening has a cross-section with a diameter, and each of the first openings is capable of emitting a pressurized gas which surrounds one of the extruded molten filaments. At least three second openings are spaced away from each of the first openings. Each of the second openings is capable of emitting a pressurized gas stream essentially parallel to the longitudinal central axis of each of the nozzles, and each of the pressurized gas streams functions to shroud one of the extruded molten filaments.
US08029257B2
A method of molding and curing tires for vehicle wheels includes the steps of disposing a tire being processed on a toroidal support, enclosing the tire and the toroidal support inside a molding cavity defined in a vulcanization mould, pressing the outer surface of the tire against the molding cavity walls, and administering heat to the tire to cause molecular crosslinking of the tire. The pressing step includes the steps of compressing side portions of the tire between the molding cavity walls and the outer surface of the toroidal support, concurrently with the closing step, and imposing an expansion to a radially-outer portion of the tire to bring the radially-outer portion of the tire against the walls of the molding cavity.
US08029247B2
Systems and methods for maintaining substantially a baseline pressure in a chamber of a pumping apparatus are disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention may serve to control a motor to compensate or account for a pressure drift which may occur in a chamber of the pumping apparatus. More specifically, a dispense motor may be controlled to substantially maintain a baseline pressure in the dispense chamber before a dispense based on a pressure sensed in the dispense chamber. In one embodiment, before a dispense is initiated a control loop may be utilized such that it is repeatedly determined if the pressure in the dispense chamber is above a desired pressure and, if so, the movement of the pumping means regulated to maintain substantially the desired pressure in the dispense chamber until a dispense of fluid is initiated.
US08029243B2
A locking plate fast fastening ceiling fan blades is provided where several nicks are formed, and a thru hole is formed communicating with the open side of one of the nicks. A wedge unit is provided in the thru hole of the locking plate. Thus, when a blade is installed on the blade rack, only the blade is set around the pillars of the blade rack, then the locking plate is made to wedge to the pillar of blade rack, and the wedge unit is made to stay close to and pass through the pillar in the nick communicating with the thru hole for fast and exact completion of fixing of the blade onto the blade rack.
US08029240B2
In one embodiment, a rotor blade balancing apparatus may include a tube member defining an inner cavity, a plurality of weights, and a biasing member. The tube member may be for the insertion into a cavity of a rotor blade. Each of the weights may be adapted to be slide-ably inserted into the inner cavity of the tube member within a cavity of a rotor blade, and slide-ably removed from the inner cavity of the tube member within a cavity of a rotor blade in order to balance a rotor blade. The biasing member may be for biasing weights, which have been slide-ably inserted into the inner cavity of the tube member within a cavity of a rotor blade, towards an end of the tube member.
US08029233B2
The disclosure relates to a method for controlling a wind turbine including a wind rotor shaft, a rotary encoder for measuring the azimuth angle of the wind rotor shaft, wherein the wind turbine further includes at least one impulse generating device including at least one first part and at least one second part, wherein the at least one first part is rotating with the wind rotor shaft and the least one second part is disposed stationary with respect to the wind rotor shaft such that the at least one first part moves by the at least one second part; wherein the method includes: encoding the azimuth angle of the wind rotor shaft by the rotary encoder into a rotation value; generating an impulse when one of the at least one first part moves by one of the at least one second part of the impulse generating device; comparing the rotation value at the time of a detected impulse with a reference value.
US08029230B2
A turbine exhaust system includes an exhaust hood inner casing that involves the turbine rotor; an exhaust hood outer casing that forms an exhaust hood, together with the exhaust hood inner casing; a flow guide that forms an annular diffuser flow path; and exhaust hood upper part flow guides each of which serves as means for separating annular plane upper part exhaust steam within a range including a vertical upward flow out of exhaust steam radially discharging from the flow guide into the exhaust hood, from other exhaust steam, to thereby introduce the separated steam to the condenser, wherein exhaust steam introduction-side end faces thereof are located further toward the upper side than the horizontal plane containing the central axis of the turbine rotor.
US08029229B2
A robotic arm compensator includes a housing, a lock mandrel, a first lock slide, a second lock slide and an instrument attached to the lock mandrel. A method of using the robotic arm compensator includes moving the first and second lock slides in a direction toward each other to engage the lock mandrel in a first state and moving the lock slides apart from each other to disengage the lock mandrel in a second state for providing exceptional radial movement, large lateral travel relative to overall size, zero force to utilize the compensation travel and no axial compressibility.
US08029228B2
A cable hoisting apparatus for loading and unloading of containers with respect to vehicles including a modular assembly allowing the apparatus to be easily attached or detached with respect to the vehicle. This modular assembly includes a subframe directly attachable detachably to the vehicle which includes a reeve cylinder and a lifting cylinder mounted therewithin. A top frame is included which is pivotally movably mounted to the subframe. The lifting cylinder powers pivotal movement of the top frame. Loading and unloading of the container is powered by the reeve cylinder. The reeve cylinder moves a shoe within a shoe track which extends or contracts a cable attached to a container which is positioned about a plurality of sheaves one of which is attached to the slideable shoe. A positively engaging locking construction is included defined between the subframe and the top frame for positively retaining the container.
US08029224B2
A substrate transfer apparatus 100 includes a substrate transport means 4 having a transport base 5 and a plurality of retention arms 41a-41e for retaining substrates W, an optical sensor 62 that is used to define a horizontal optical axis L, an elevator means 52 for moving the transport base 5 up and down, and a height detection means 54 for detecting the height of the transport base 5 relative to the optical axis L. In accordance with a light-reception/no-light-reception detection result fed from the optical sensor 62 and the height of the transport base 5, a judgment means 72a of a control section 7 judges whether the postures of the retention arms 41a-41e relative to the horizontal plane are normal. When the judgment means 72a judges that the postures of the retention arms 41a-41e relative to the horizontal plane are abnormal, the control section 7 exercises control to stop the substrate transport means 4.
US08029223B2
A screw (60) is provided, having a shaft (32) and a head (66), for fastening a component onto a substructure utilizing a tightly pressing conical sealing disk (50) against the component. The screw head (66) is configured at the bottom (64) thereof around the shaft (32) as a cone that is tapered in the direction of the top (68) of the screw head (66). The cone angle of the conical sealing disk (50) measured against a perpendicular line to the disk axis is equal to, or larger than the cone angle (alpha) of the screw head (66), which is measured against a perpendicular line to the screw axis. When the screw (60) is tightened, the conical bottom (64) of the screw head (66) and the conical top (58) of the sealing disk (50) are in mutual surface contact with each other. This maintains a sealing connection. Through the conical configuration of the bottom (64) of the screw head (66) the so-called “cupping” of the sealing disk (50) is prevented when the screw (60) is tightened.
US08029211B2
An adaptor for setting a self-drilling, chemically anchorable, fastening element (5) includes a rotor member (21) rotatably supported in the adaptor housing (36) and having at its opposite ends (23,25) respectively, a coupling section (24) for connecting the rotor member (21) with a drilling tool (8) for joint rotation therewith, and a coupling receptacle (26) for fixedly receiving a free end (6) of the fastening element (5). Support elements (52,53) are provided in one of two housing parts (41,51) for rotatably supporting the rotor member (21). Sealing elements (42), which are provided in another housing part (41), for a connection channel section (32) that connects a connection opening (37) in the housing (36) for the ejection medium (4) with a feeding channel (31) in the rotor member (21).
US08029208B1
A cover structure for covering a portion of a surface of a body of water includes a first plate having a brim, a second plate having a brim, the second plate overlying and spaced apart from the first plate, a support structure coupling the first plate to the second plate, and the cover structure having a specific gravity for maintaining the first plate in a position covering a portion of the surface of a body of water, and maintaining the second plate below the portion of the surface of the body of water.
US08029197B2
A hand-held image stabilization and balancing system for cameras includes a main body part having a C-shaped member, a handle gimbaled to the main body part and releasably lockable in a fixed position, a camera mounting platform pivotably mounted to the main body part by a tilting joint, a pivoting plate pivotably mounted to the main body part, and a tripod mounted to the pivoting plate by a panning joint for rotation relative to the main body part. The tilting joint is located at the free end of the upper arm, and the pivoting plate is mounted at the free end of the lower arm for pivoting about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the C-shaped member. The stabilization device has a travel mode, in which it is folded for compactness, and a number of use modes, in which it can be used to stabilize a camera mounted thereon.
US08029186B2
What is disclosed is an apparatus for determining the cooling characteristics of a cooling device used for transferring heat from an electronic device. The apparatus comprising a cooling device thermally coupled to a heat pipe. The heat pipe having an exposed surface for the selective application of heat thereon. A localized heat source is selectively applied to at least one region of the exposed surface. The heat source preferably capable of being varied both positionally relative to the exposed surface and in heat intensity. A heat shield is preferably positioned around the exposed surface of the heat pipe to isolate the operational cooling device from the localized heat source. A temperature detector repeatedly measures a temperature distribution across the exposed surface while the cooling device is in a heat transfer mode. The temperature distribution is then used to thermally characterize the cooling device.
US08029175B2
A lighting apparatus is disposed near an upper end edge of a license plate on a rear side of a vehicle. The lighting apparatus includes a license plate lamp which illuminates the license plate with visible light, and an infrared irradiation lamp which irradiates a region behind the vehicle with infrared light. The license plate lamp includes a first light emitting device which emits the visible light and is supported on a rear surface of a first support plate. The infrared irradiation lamp includes a second light emitting device which emits the infrared light and is supported on a lower surface of a second support plate. A lower end of the first support plate is coupled to a rear end of the second support plate. When seen from behind the vehicle, the license plate lamp is disposed directly above the infrared irradiation lamp.
US08029168B2
A projection type image display apparatus has a light source unit (11) that includes an arc tube (110) enclosed by a reflector (111) for reflecting the light emitted from the arc tube in one direction through its opening (111a). The opening (111a) of the reflector (111) of the light source unit (11) is covered with a transparent member (112). Formed in one side of the reflector (111), adjacent the opening is an air inlet port (113), while the side facing the air inlet port (113) is closed (i.e. has no port). Formed in the remaining two sides of the reflector (111), and adjacent the opening (111a), are air outlet ports (114) one for each side. This arrangement causes the cooling air to be uniformly circulated in the entire reflector (111) of the light source unit (11) without stagnation to regulate the temperature of the arc tube (110) in an easy and costless manner, and enables installation of the light source unit (11) at any angular position, free of angular limitation.
US08029163B2
An LED unit includes an LED and an envelope receiving the LED therein. The envelope includes a bottom substrate fixing the LED thereon, a sidewall angling upwardly from the substrate and surrounding the LED, and a lens formed in the sidewall and located above the LED. The lens has two aspheric surfaces with different curvatures to collect light deflected at a small angle relative to an axis of the LED into a parallel pattern. The sidewall has upper and lower conical inner circumferences and a parabolic outer circumference to direct light deflected at a large angle relative to the axis of the LED into parallel pattern. The lower inner circumference of the sidewall has an angle of 2π/5 to 13π/30, and the upper inner circumference of the sidewall has an angle of 5π/36 to 7π/36.
US08029150B2
An outer mirror includes: a mirror base which is attached to a side surface of a vehicle body of a vehicle; a shaft which is erected on the mirror base; and a mirror housing which is rotatably attached to the shaft and is provided with a mirror for reflecting a rearward of the vehicle body. The shaft is exposed in a gap between a top surface of the mirror base and a bottom surface of the mirror housing. The shaft includes at least one of a concave portion or a convex portion on a part of an outer circumferential surface of the shaft which faces to a front side of the vehicle body.
US08029142B2
An illumination source includes a number of light emitting diodes (LEDs) operating at a first wavelength. Light from the LEDs illuminates a phosphor material that generates light at a second wavelength. A reflective polarizer transmits light at the second wavelength in a first polarization state and reflects light at the second wavelength in a second polarization state orthogonal to the first polarization state. The light at the second wavelength reflected by the reflective polarizer is directed back towards the phosphor material without an increase in angular range. In some embodiments the LEDs, having a conformal layer of phosphor material, are attached directly to the first surface of a liquid cooled plate. A liquid coolant contacts a second surface of the plate.
US08029141B2
The image display apparatus includes a two-dimensional light modulation device for modulating light emitted from a laser light source, a display surface for displaying the modulated light, an optical pixel aperture enlarging member for distributing the luminance of the laser light while introducing the laser light to apertures of pixels of the modulation device; and a display pixel aperture enlarging portion for optically enlarging the modulated light by the apertures of the pixels of the modulation device corresponding to pixels of an image to be displayed. The luminance of a partial area of each pixel of the image displayed on the display surface is controlled to be below the threefold of an average value of the luminance in the area of the entire pixel by the optical pixel aperture enlarging member and the display pixel aperture enlarging portion, accomplishing speckle noise reduction and improved light utilization efficiency.
US08029135B2
The invention relates to polarized and abrasion-resistant article comprising: a) a polarized layer applied to a substrate, said polarized layer including an oriented liquid crystal polymer layer (LCP) including at least one dichroic dye, said liquid crystal layer being coated on a photo-orientation layer, and b) an abrasion-resistant coating applied to the polarized layer on said substrate. The invention also relates to a process for manufacturing said articles, and to the use of the above-mentioned article for the manufacturing of optic glasses or lenses.
US08029121B2
An ink supply system for an inkjet printer. The ink supply system includes: an upstream ink conduit for connection with an ink inlet of a printhead; a pressure-regulating chamber having an outlet port connected to the upstream ink conduit, the chamber containing ink at a first level below the printhead, wherein a headspace above the first level of ink is open to atmosphere; and a downstream ink conduit for connection with an ink outlet of the printhead, the downstream ink conduit extending above the first level of ink and being open to atmosphere. The downstream ink conduit has a loop section passing below the first level of ink, such that, in a printing configuration, a second level of ink in the loop section is equal to the first level of ink in the chamber.
US08029118B2
A Multi-color ink-jet print cartridge includes an integrally shaped one-piece body with a reservoir portion including at least two ink chambers, and a manifold portion including at least two ink conduits, each ink conduit hydraulically connected to a corresponding one of the ink chambers through a port. An ink-jet printhead, includes at least two nozzle arrays, each of which arrays is hydraulically connected to a corresponding one of the ink conduits. A lid covers the reservoir portion of the body. Each of the ink conduits includes a channel portion in side to side relationship with the corresponding channel portion of the adjacent ink conduit. The channel portions have adjacent openings on one external wall of the body. Separate independent plugs are sealingly inserted into the adjacent openings.
US08029103B2
The present invention provides a liquid droplet ejection head that ejects droplets of high viscosity ink. A liquid droplet of an electrically conductive liquid in the liquid droplet ejection head is ejected from the head, which is provided with difference in potential between the head and an opposing medium, toward the medium. Electricity is conducted between the head and the medium through a tail of the liquid droplet.
US08029100B2
Micro-fluid ejection heads and methods for fabricating micro-fluid ejection heads are provided, including those that use a non-conventional substrate and methods for making large array micro-fluid ejection heads. One such ejection head includes a substrate having a device surface with a plurality of fluid ejection actuator devices and a pocket disposed adjacent thereto. A chip associated with the plurality of fluid ejection actuator devices is attached in the chip pocket adjacent to the device surface of the substrate. A conductive material is deposited adjacent to the device surface of the substrate and in electrical communication with the chip.
US08029095B2
Provided is a pagewidth printhead for an inkjet printer. The printhead has a printhead integrated circuit, a molding for supporting the printhead integrated circuit and distributing ink along the printhead integrated circuit, a core element bonded to the molding, and, an outer shell with a first metal layer sandwiched between two second metal layers, so that an effective coefficient of thermal expansion of said shell is substantially equal to that of the printhead integrated circuit. The core element defines ink reservoirs in fluid communication with the molding.
US08029088B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a head which ejects a liquid from nozzles; a first electrode which charges the liquid with a first potential; a second electrode which is charged with a second potential different from the first potential; and an inspector which inspects whether the liquid is ejected from the nozzles based on a variation in a potential caused in at least one of the first and second electrodes by ejecting the liquid charged with the first potential from the nozzles to the second electrode and which determines whether the inspection of liquid ejection from the nozzles is normally executed based on the variation in the potential during a non-ejection period in which the liquid is not ejected from all of the nozzles.
US08029085B2
A transport mechanism transports a medium in a transport direction based on a target transport amount and has a first roller provided on an upstream side in the transport direction and a second roller provided on a downstream side in the transport direction. Correction values are calculated based on an interval between the lines in the transport direction. The transport mechanism is controlled based on a corrected target transport amount after correcting the target transport amount based on the correction values. Lines are formed by ejecting ink from a first nozzle when the first roller is in contact with the medium, and ejecting ink from a second nozzle on a downstream side from the first nozzle in the transport direction when the first roller is not in contact with the medium and the second roller is in contact with the medium.
US08029083B2
A recording medium detection method uses transmission and reflection photosensors to correctly detect if a recording medium having labels affixed to a liner is in the transportation path. The label printer 1 has a reflection photosensor 26 and a transmission photosensor 27 disposed to the transportation path at positions separated the distance L0 between the labels 12c. Labels 12c on the recording medium 12a can always be detected by either or both the reflection photosensor 26 and the transmission photosensor 27. Because the reflection photosensor 26 is downstream from the transmission photosensor 27, a situation in which a black mark 12d is at the detection position of the reflection photosensor 26 and reflection is not detected and only the liner 12b is at the detection position of the transmission photosensor 27 and transmission of the detection beam is detected is avoided. Detecting transmission without detecting reflection of the detection beam therefore only occurs when the recording medium 12a is not in the transportation path A.
US08029080B2
An opening and closing system permits a drawer to be operated by pressing on a front panel of the drawer (e.g., in a hands-free manner). By way of example, the system includes a first sub-assembly coupled to the drawer and a second sub-assembly coupled to a drawer frame. A linear spring provides a tensioning force for operation of the drawer. The first sub-assembly includes a first pivot biasly coupled to the drawer, a fixed-length arm having a first end fixed to the first pivot and a second end coupled to a roller. The second sub-assembly includes first and second guide arms coupled to a second pivot, the first guide arm having an upper surface for engaging the roller when the drawer is being closed, the second guide arm having an arcuate-shaped region sized to receive at least a portion of the roller after the drawer is closed.
US08029062B2
A seating system has a tiltable seat coupled to a base, which can be coupled to a motor vehicle or other device. The seat includes a seat bracket coupled to the base by a seat tilt pivot. The seat is configured to maintain a user's body in a fixed position during tilting throughout the seat's range of tilt angles. A seat adjustment mechanism allows angular adjustment of the seat and locks the seat at a fixed tilt angle relative to the base. The seat tilt pivot axis is located approximately vertically below the center of gravity of a loaded seat, thus reducing the force needed to tilt a loaded seat. By fixing or maintaining the seat tilt pivot vertically beneath the load being pivoted, the amount of force needed to control seat tilting can be limited to forces that a typical user can exert with one or two hands.
US08029061B2
There is provided a link mechanism for a chair that is a link mechanism that is used at a chair, the link mechanism for a chair having: a first link whose one end is connected to a bottom surface of a link that supports a seat surface portion of the chair; a second link whose one end is connected to another end of the first link; a first joint portion rotatably connecting the first link and the second link; a second joint portion provided at another end of the second link; and a first elastic resistance unit imparting elasticity in a rotating direction to the second joint portion.
US08029051B2
A metal automobile frame including a number of extruded, constant-section linear bars welded to one another at structural nodes defined by connecting bodies with pockets for housing the linear bars. A pierced linear bar includes a number of tabs, each of which is located inside the pierced linear bar, extends perpendicularly from a side of the pierced linear bar, and is sized so as not to interfere with the opening in the pierced linear bar.
US08029041B2
An integrated door substrate and pelvic bolster is provided for use in a vehicle. The integrated component is formed from a polymerizable material by injection molding. The pelvic bolster is formed from thin lateral walls that buckle and tear under compressive loading. The pelvic bolster is designed to bend but not fracture under load, thus maintaining a continuous loading curve.
US08029027B2
A latch device (30) for a door lock includes a latch (38) pivotable between an extended, locking position and a retracted, unlocking position upon operation of a linking rod (37). A liming block (36) is coupled with the linking rod (37) and movable between a locking position not allowing direct pivotal movement of the latch (38) from the extended position to the retracted position and an unlocking position allowing pivotal movement of the latch (38) from the extended position to the retracted position. When the door is closed, the locking member (36) is moved by gravitational force to a locking position. Movement of the linking rod (37) in an unlatching position through an idle travel moves the locking member (36) from the locking position to the unlocking position without moving the latch (38). Further movement of the linking rod (37) in the unlatching position causes pivotal movement of the latch (38) from the extended position to the retracted position.
US08029014B2
A stroller includes a frame assembly, a seat supported by the frame assembly, and first and second adjustable seat supports engaged with the frame assembly to support the seat in a position relative to the frame assembly. A link couples the first and second seat supports such that a movement of the first seat support is mirrored in a corresponding movement of the second seat support to adjust the position of the seat.
US08029003B2
A skate comprises a soleplate member including a heel support and a toe support overlapping and adapted to slide with respect to the heel support in a longitudinal axis and fixed in a desired position as to achieve a desired length of the soleplate member; wherein the toe support includes first and second teeth spaced from each other; and an adjustment unit including teeth adapted to selectively wedge with the first teeth and a wedging end adapted to selectively wedge with the second teeth.
US08029000B2
A chuck for use with a driver having a rotatable drive shaft, the chuck including a body having a nose section and a tail section, the tail section being configured to rotate with the drive shaft and the nose section having an axial bore. A plurality of jaws is movably disposed with respect to the body and in communication with the axial bore. A first sleeve is rotatably mounted to the body in operative communication with the jaws so that rotation of the sleeve moves the jaws either toward a longitudinal center axis of the axial bore or away from the longitudinal center axis. A second sleeve is rotatably mounted to the body and is movable between a first position in which the second sleeve is rotatably fixed to the body and a second position in which the second sleeve is rotatable about the body. The second sleeve moves in a direction transverse to the longitudinal center axis of the axial bore when moving between the first position and the second position.
US08028993B2
A roulette wheel (1) has a ball detector (9a, 9b, 9c) to detect the ball as the ball travels round the rim (3) of the roulette wheel and a drop determiner (21) to determine, for each of a number of games of roulette, the region of the rim from which the ball fell from the rim. Data representing, for a number of games, the region of the rim from which the ball fell from the rim may then be stored for later analysis or may be directly analysed to determine any drop zone bias. The ball detector may be a number of ball detecting elements (9a, 9b, 9c) spaced apart around the rim (3) of the roulette wheel for each providing a ball detection signal as the ball travels through a corresponding region (R1, R2 and R3) of the rim and the drop detector (21) may determine the region of the rim from which the ball fell from the rim by determining the detecting element passed last by the ball.
US08028991B2
A supporting unit is mounted on a body of an image forming apparatus in a swingable manner around a swing fulcrum. A through shaft serves as the swing fulcrum, which is inserted into the supporting unit through the swing fulcrum so that both ends of the through shaft are supported by supporting members. The through shaft includes at least one of an operation member that is slidable on the through shaft in an axial direction and a biasing unit that biases a sliding force in one direction of the axial direction. When the supporting unit is opened with respect to the body, at least a part of a conveying path on which the recording medium is conveyed is exposed.
US08028989B2
A bottom surface of a stacking and accommodating portion is structured such as to be sloped to be lower in accordance with moving away from a paper carry-in side, and a push plate is controlled so as to be moved in a direction moving close to a carry-in port of the paper by detecting a stack paper width determined on the basis of a product of a stacked number count information of the papers and a thickness information per one paper, and the papers are accommodated.
US08028987B2
For separating flat articles from a lying stack of articles, each foremost article of the stack is conveyed away one after the other in an upwards direction. For making such separation applicable also for mechanically relatively unstable articles, a preparatory step is implemented prior to the step of conveying-away upwards. In this preparatory step each foremost article of the stack is gripped, then separated from the front end of the stack in a direction essentially perpendicular to the main surfaces of the stacked articles and simultaneously or immediately afterwards accelerated upwards. Only when the article has a speed component in upwards direction of approximately the order of magnitude of the conveying-away speed is the article transferred to the conveying-away means. The preparatory step is carried out with a suction device that moves on a suction device track.
US08028983B2
A sheet processing apparatus that performs processing for sheets such as sorting or stapling of the sheets after image formation includes a motor that controls a rotating position of a sheet pushing member. When a leading end of a sheet passes, after the leading end of the sheet reaches a pivoting roller, a rotating position of the sheet pushing member is controlled according to a conveyance condition during the passage of a trailing end of the sheet. The sheet pushing member is rotated and, when the trailing end of the sheet passes, the sheet is conveyed while a charge removing brush is pressed against the sheet.
US08028981B2
A method of delivering signatures to a finishing line includes generating an assembly order. The assembly order is provided to a controller that is operatively associated with a feeder that comprises a print-on-demand printer. Paper is provided to the print-on-demand printer. The controller controls printing on a signature with the print-on-demand printer according to the assembly order. The controller controls feeding the signature to a first pocket on the finishing line and delivering the signature from the first pocket to the finishing line according to the assembly order. The controller controls printing on an additional signature with the print-on-demand printer according to the assembly order. The controller controls feeding the additional signature to the first pocket, and delivering the additional signature from the first pocket to the finishing line according to the assembly order.
US08028965B2
A bracket for a slide assembly includes a fixing base which is disposed on a slide assembly and includes a first wall, a second wall, a first side wall, and a channel. The first wall has a first bend portion perpendicular to the second wall. The second wall has a second bend portion corresponding to the first wall. A sliding member is slidably connected to the channel of the fixing base and includes a third wall, a fourth wall, and a second side wall. The third wall has a third bend portion perpendicular to the fourth wall. The fourth wall has a fourth bend portion corresponding to the third bend portion. A fixing member is connected to the sliding member and includes a fixing portion. The length of the sliding member is adjustable with respect to the fixing base to fit the longitudinal depth of a rack for mounting purpose.
US08028963B2
A monopod support especially for video filming comprises a rod at the longitudinally opposite ends of which are provided a base and an attachment for a video-photographic apparatus, respectively. The rod is rotatable with respect to the base about a substantially longitudinal axis of the rod and at least one shock-absorbing element of the type having a viscous coupling is interposed between the base and the rod in order to damp the vibrations resulting from the rotational movement of the rod with respect to the base about the axis of the rod.
US08028958B2
A seating system may comprise a seat base, a seat back, and a width adjustable section. The width adjustable section may be located within the seat base and the seat back. The width adjustable section may be capable of being configured to change a width of the seat base and the seat back.
US08028957B2
A system for reducing the manual force required to move a lowerable shell of a luggage compartment in a passenger aircraft includes a load determination device for determining a load acting on the lowerable shell of the luggage compartment, and a state detection device for detecting whether the lowerable shell is in a closed position or an open position. The system also includes a force assisting device for applying a constant assisting force which opposes the load acting on the lowerable shell. The system further includes an actuating device adapted to move the force assisting device from a first inactive operating state to a second active operating state when the lowerable shell is in the open position and the load acting on the lowerable shell exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
US08028953B2
Providing an accelerating device capable of safely and efficiently accelerating an aircraft even if the aircraft is a high-speed and heavyweight one.The accelerating device has a support base for supporting an aircraft so that it does not go backward or levitate and does not pitch; a guide way placed along a predetermined route; guide means for guiding the support base along the guide way; and drive means for driving the support base along the guide way.
US08028950B2
A combination of belt retractor and belt pre-tensioner in which the pre-tensioning device is coupled to the belt shaft by means of the vehicle-sensitive or belt strap sensitive locking system of the belt retractor, is characterized in that a lever (16) entrained by the drive wheel (10) on its rotation in the pre-tensioning direction is mounted pivotally on the housing and on its pivoting movement effected by the rotation of the drive wheel (10) its free end (18) comes into engagement with the control disc (12) and in so doing, over part of its pivoting movement, drives the control disc (12) for its relative rotation relatively to the belt shaft and after the lever (16) has passed through its pivoting path serving to drive the control disc (12) it is released from the control disc (12) and the drive wheel (10).
US08028942B2
An assembly has a bin level detection system having at least one sensor positioned to receive radiation reflected off any material deposited in a bin and to determine an intensity of the reflected radiation. The intensity corresponds to an amount or level of shredded material deposited in the bin. The system may detect radiation from one or more emitters, or, alternatively, detect ambient light entering the bin via a window. A level indicator system may also be provided to indicate the amount of material deposited in the bin, including if the bin is full. The assembly may comprise a shredder and a shredder housing.
US08028933B2
A shower additive dispenser assembly including an arm member. A receptacle is mounted to the arm member. A body member has a cavity formed therein for retaining a fluid, the body member is removably mounted to the receptacle. A microporous flow restrictor is disposed at the body member. The microporous flow restrictor is configured for allowing the fluid to exit the body member.
US08028929B2
An arrangement for controlling the fuel supply in a fuel supply apparatus, which arrangement comprises a body part including a space, through which the fuel to be injected flows during the operation, and a fuel inlet opening and a fuel discharge opening, which open into said space, the arrangement further comprising a piston member movably arranged in said space and a flow path to provide flow communication between the fuel inlet opening and the fuel discharge opening. The arrangement comprises at least one throttle section opening to the front of the piston member in the flow direction of the fuel, the cross-sectional flow area of which section is determined by the mutual positions of the piston member and the body part.
US08028926B2
A thermostat valve arrangement for the cooling circuit of an internal combustion engine includes a main valve member movably mounted in a housing adapted to be pressed against a main valve seat by a spring. The valve arrangement further includes a bypass valve member cooperating with a bypass valve seat in the housing. An expansion element has a first section cooperating with an abutment fixed to the housing and a second section cooperating with the main valve member and the bypass valve member such that the main valve or bypass valve is selectively closed and/or opened, in order to produce the cooling circuit of the internal combustion engine by means of a radiator or a bypass.
US08028922B2
An electronic device includes: a card reader into which a card is inserted and which reads out information carried on the card; a power supply unit which supplies power to the card reader; a detection unit which detects the insertion of a card into the card reader and the ejection of a card from the card reader; and a control unit which controls the power supply unit. When the detection unit detects the insertion of a card, the control unit causes the power supply unit to start the supply of power to the card reader, and when the detection unit detects the ejection of the inserted card, the control unit causes the power supply unit to shut off the supply of power to the card reader.
US08028917B2
An imaging reader includes an illuminating light assembly, an illuminating control operative to control either the intensity or the duration of the illumination light projected by the illuminating light assembly, and a solid-state imager. The solid-state imager includes a matrix of optical-sensors and a signal processing circuit coupled to the matrix of optical-sensors. The controller is operative to determine the optimized exposure level of the illuminating control and the optimized gain of the signal processing circuit based on a measured voltage of a voltage power source for the solid-state imager.
US08028916B2
Systems and techniques for assuring proper presentation of a bar code for imaging scanning in a hybrid laser and imaging bar code scanner. A scanner includes elements for laser bar code scanning and imaging bar code scanning, and includes indicia for assuring proper presentation by a user of a bar code suited to imaging scanning. Indicia may include targeting features on a scan window, designed so as to minimize interference with bar code scanning, or may alternatively include features alongside a scan window. Alternative indicia may include removable holders for securing an object bearing a bar code in an appropriate position, and further alternative indicia may include visible targeting beams so that a user can be assured that imaging scanning may be satisfactorily performed on bar code placed in a visible targeting beam.
US08028914B2
A laminated material on which information is recorded is provided. The laminated material includes a microsphere fixing layer in which many transparent microspheres are arranged and buried with parts thereof exposed, a reflection layer disposed at almost the focus positions of the transparent microspheres, and a transparent resin layer provided at least partially on a surface of the microsphere fixing layer, where the transparent microspheres are exposed. The transparent resin layer shifts the focus positions of the transparent microspheres to reduce the retroreflectance of the portions where the transparent resin layer is provided. The information is recorded with the use of a difference in retroreflectance between the portions where the transparent resin layer is provided and portions where the transparent resin layer is not provided.
US08028913B2
Performance of an imaging reader for electro-optically reading direct part markings on workpieces is enhanced by uniformly illuminating the markings. An illuminator is operative for emitting illumination light of greater and lesser intensity toward the indicia. A diffuser is operative for diffusing the illumination light en route to the indicia. The diffuser includes a plurality of diffusing elements adjacent the illuminator for diffusing the illumination light of greater intensity more than the illumination light of lesser intensity.
US08028911B1
A hand-operated document processor has a base for receiving a document containing magnetic ink character data to be read and recognized. A manually operated moving magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) subsystem includes a MICR read head and is attached to the base. Movement of the subsystem causes the MICR read head to pass over the magnetic ink character data on the document. MICR reading and recognition logic receives the signal from the MICR read head. A spring/cylinder mechanism includes a spring providing the force necessary to drive the moving MICR subsystem, and includes a dashpot composed of a piston and cylinder arranged such that the spring moves the MICR subsystem across the document being processed and drives the piston in the cylinder, thereby damping the motion of the MICR subsystem.
US08028909B2
An imaging system with in-field image quality testing and reporting features, includes a housing, and a solid-state imager having an array of image sensors supported by the housing for capturing return light from a target located in a range of working distances from the housing in an image capture mode of operation, and for capturing return light from a test pattern positioned at a predetermined position in the range of working distances in a test mode of operation different from the image capture mode. An electrical signal indicative of the captured return light is generated in each mode. A memory is supported by the housing for storing a test program for testing image quality. A controller is supported by the housing for processing the electrical signal in the image capture mode, and for accessing the memory to enable the controller to execute the test program in the test mode to test the image quality of the test pattern imaged by the imaging system, and for reporting test results of the image quality of the test pattern.
US08028898B2
A cheque clearing process includes the steps of: receiving, in a computer system, first payment information based on digital ink generated by an optically imaging pen, the digital ink identifying a unique cheque identity and representing handwritten information entered on the cheque by the pen; receiving, in the computer system, second payment information based on independently reading visible information on the cheque; and comparing the first payment information with the second payment information.
US08028892B2
The system disclosed includes at least a consumer item, such as a cigarette box, medication package or piece of clothing, and a detection device that can be operated by a buyer of the consumer item, which is configured for the detection of a coding in the consumer item, and a server, wherein the coding is hidden in the consumer item, but can be accessed by the buyer of the consumer item, so that the coding can be detected by means of a detection device and be transmitted to the manufacturer via a telecommunications connection to the server, wherein the server verifies if the coding is registered as valid, and wherein, depending upon the verification of the coding, a monetary benefit in favor of the telecommunications number of the buyer is credited by means of the server, and/or the server is configured for transmission of information to the buyer.
US08028879B2
The present invention relates and provides a versatile multi use bag which can be configured to serve as a shoulder-side or frontal suspended carrying bag, or as a neck suspended carrying bag or as a rucksack. The bag being a multi-compartment carrying bag and rucksack, comprising a multi-compartment openable body to contain whatever items are to be transported by the user, an extended-length strap with means at both ends thereof whereby the strap can be releasably anchored to the body of the bag. A tunnel-like portion attached proximate to an edge of the body wherethrough the strap can be inserted; and at least two spaced-apart anchor points positioned proximate to the outer perimeter of the body whereto the strap ends may be releasably attached.
US08028874B2
An L-shaped member has a forwardly extending horizontal leg and an upwardly extending vertical leg. The horizontal leg has a forward end removably couplable with respect to a hitch of a vehicle. The vertical leg has an upper end. A roller assembly includes a U-shaped support. The U-shaped support has a horizontal central portion coupled to the upper end of the vertical leg. The U-shaped support has upwardly extending vertical end legs and a shaft rotatably supported by the end legs. The roller assembly includes primary rollers rotatably supported on the shaft. A spacer is provided between the primary rollers. A bottom of an object is positionable upon the primary rollers and pushed into position upon a roof of the vehicle.
US08028868B2
Embodiment of the invention provide a garment support system, which may include a garment hanger and a garment bar physically unconnected to the hanger that can attach to the bottom of a garment supported by the hanger. The garment bar may include one or more clips for attaching the supporting to a garment. The support also may be weighted to provide additional support to the garment and/or to maintain a garment in a desired configuration.
US08028867B2
The invention relates to a container (1) for containing a substance. The container comprises a preformed deformable body defining a filling cavity. The body has an opening (6) and an integral planar circumferential rim (5) surrounding said opening. The opening is closed by a cover sheet (7) which is sealed to the circumferential rim by means of a circumferential sealing seam (10). The circumferential rim has a flat dispensing part which is covered by the cover sheet, which cover sheet is sealed to the dispensing part by at least two outwardly directed sealing seams (11) joining the circumferential sealing seam and extending at a distance from one another from the circumferential sealing seam to the edge of the dispensing part. A weakened seal (14) with a pointed region (15) extends between the outwardly directed sealing seams. The pointed region is directed towards the cavity and the weakened sealing seam joins the respective outwardly directed sealing seams at a distance from the location (12) where the respective outwardly directed seals join the circumferential seal.
US08028864B2
A system for dispensing texture material onto a target surface in a desired pattern that substantially matches an existing pattern on the target surface including a main container, an outlet assembly, a secondary container, a conduit, and a valve. The main container stores texture material. The outlet assembly defines an outlet opening a cross-sectional area of which is alterable. The secondary container stores pressurized propellant material. The conduit is operatively connected between the main container and the secondary container. The valve is arranged to allow control of fluid between the main container and the secondary container. The outlet assembly is configured such that the cross-sectional area of the outlet opening corresponds to the desired pattern. The valve is operated such that the texture material is forced out of the main container through the outlet opening defined by the outlet assembly and deposited on the target surface in the desired texture pattern.
US08028861B2
The invention relates to a dispenser, particularly suitable for a liquid container, comprising: an air pump with an air cylinder (23) and an air piston (3) axially displaceable in the air cylinder, an air space (19) defined between the air cylinder and the air piston, supply-closing means (39) for closing the air supply to the air pump, discharge-closing means for closing the air discharge from the air pump, a cover (1) connected to the air piston, an air inlet opening (12) in the cover, wherein the air inlet opening debouches directly into the air space, and an annular element (39) which extends axially on the inside of the cover and which comprises an edge part, which edge part is in contact with at least the part of the inner wall of the cover located around the air inlet opening (12).
US08028854B2
The subject invention is a lid assembly (20) for use on a container (22) presenting an endless top rim (24). A frame (26) includes shell-shaped sidewalls (36) that face one another, and present upper concave central edges (48). The upper concave central edges (48) are connected by lower edges (50) to define opposed L-shaped openings (54) between the central edges (48). A pair of abutting L-shaped flaps (28) each define a top leg (64) and a side leg (68). The flaps (28) are complementary to the L-shaped openings (54) by extending away from each other along the upper central edges (48) of the sidewalls (36) and then downward to the lower edge (50). The top legs (64) may be pushed down into the opening (54) to provide access to the container (22) while the side legs (68) bias the flaps (28) to a closed position.
US08028850B2
A self-anchoring beverage container with directional release and attachment capability has a flexible nonporous base member adapted to seal to a reference surface and create a controlled pressure zone. A receptacle assembly is mounted to the base member and includes a beverage holding chamber. A communication channel in the receptacle assembly extends from the controlled pressure zone to an area of ambient pressure. A pressure control device on the receptacle assembly is adapted to alternately close the communication channel to seal the controlled pressure zone and open the communication channel to vent the controlled pressure zone to ambient pressure. The receptacle assembly further includes a grasping portion arranged to be grasped by a user. The pressure control device is operatively connected to the grasping portion for actuation to the open position when a user grasps the grasping portion during normal lifting of the beverage container from the reference surface.
US08028846B2
Assembly of a structurally sound modular shelving system includes forming an H-shaped base structure, or otherwise-shaped base structure, by releasably hooking a tie beam into a first base piece and a second base piece. A first column member is slid into the first base piece by sliding an insert tab at an end of an elongate body of the first column into a vertical passage through the first base piece. A second column member is similarly slid into a second base piece. A header member is releasably hooked into the first and second columns, the header member extending substantially horizontally between the first and second columns and substantially perpendicularly to the first and second base pieces.
US08028844B2
A hanger assembly includes a sliding rail assembly and a hanger attachment. The sliding rail assembly includes a fixed member, a sliding arm, and a hinge. The hinge has a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion is pivotally engaged to the second portion. The first portion is slidably engaged to the fixed member and the second portion is fixedly engaged to the sliding arm. The sliding rail assembly has a non-pivoted state and a pivoted state, wherein in the non-pivoted state the sliding arm is positioned substantially parallel to the fixed member, and in the pivoted state the sliding arm defines an angle with the fixed member. The hanger attachment is engaged to at least a portion of the sliding arm.
US08028837B2
A package that is opened by deforming or bending the package along the die cut on the surface of the package is disclosed. The package will fracture or break at a die cut providing an opening in the package to access the contents inside. The package is formed with a semi-rigid layer affixed to a flexible backing layer forming an inner cavity. A die cut extends from at least an area adjacent one edge of the semi-rigid layer to at least an area adjacent another edge of the semi-rigid layer to provide a fracture point for the package to break. At least a portion of the die cut extends along both the lateral width and the longitudinal width of the semi-rigid layer to allow a greater surface area of the substrate to be accessible. Thus, dispensing of the substrate is easier for the user.
US08028836B2
A packaging assembly having an open design for displaying a product is provided. The packaging assembly is configured for storage and display in high density arrays of packaging assemblies, such as storage in pallets, and is configured to display visual information to a user from any perspective, even when the packaging assembly is packed in high density arrays of packaging assemblies. The packaging assembly includes an inner portion designed to contain a product and a housing designed to house the inner portion, wherein the inner portion includes a substantially transparent cover that facilitates display of the product. The packaging assembly includes an outer portion having a three dimensional window box frame, wherein portions of the window box frame are configured to couple to flanges provided on the inner portion.
US08028833B1
A container for lipsticks able to hold several lipsticks and other utensils in the cosmetics line and having a pliable base material (16) with a pliable top material lying flat (10) against the pliable base material in some areas and in other areas forming pockets (14) that lie in vertical columns. The pockets (14) of one column are offset from the pockets (14) of the other column so that when folded vertically the pockets of one column lie between the pockets of the other column. In addition, having double layers of a flexible transparent material (12) for identifying the color of each lipstick, a device to keep the upper edge rigid (18) while allowing it to be folded vertically and a closure and or hanging device (20). Because all the pockets open toward the center of the pliable base material, none of the contents can be spilled from the pockets when the container for lipsticks is folded vertically, rolled and secured with the closure device (20). When open flat all the lipstick colors can be seen at once.
US08028820B2
A device for storing articles with two conveyor tracks that can be driven in opposite directions and a transfer mechanism that can be moved along the conveyor tracks for transferring the articles between the two conveyor tracks // with this device at least one functional control unit that monitors the device is provided. This significantly improves the possibility of detecting damage and trouble and prevents serious consequences, damages and downtime.
US08028819B1
A scraper blade for a conveyor belt cleaner is provided. The scraper blade being adapted, when appropriately tensioned against a conveyor belt, to maintain a plurality of predetermined cleaning angles, relative to the conveyor belt, as the scraper blade is progressively worn down through contact with the conveyor belt, the scraper blade having a first blade section and a second blade section. The first blade section is proximate a distal end of the scraper blade, the first blade section being configured to maintain a first predetermined cleaning angle relative to the conveyor belt. The second blade section substantially adjacent the first blade section, the second blade section being configured to maintain a second predetermined cleaning angle, relative to the conveyor belt, after the first blade section is worn away through contact with the conveyor belt. The second predetermined cleaning angle is different than the first predetermined cleaning angle. The first blade section and the second blade section each define a profile which approximately corresponds to a volute of a circle. Processes and computer implemented processes for designing outer profiles and inner profiles of primary scraper blades and secondary scraper blades are also provided.
US08028818B2
The invention relates to a method for transporting a transportation rack (12) through a conveyor-type dishwasher which has a plurality of treatment zones by means of transportation catches (10) which are accommodated on transportation rails (5, 6). The transportation catches (10) transport transportation racks (12) in the conveying direction (1.1), with the transportation rails (5, 6) being driven by means of a rotary shaft (3). The transportation catches (10) pivot (11) about a shaft (8), which runs parallel to the conveying direction (1.1), during a forward stroke (VH) of the transportation rails (5, 6) and during the return stroke (RH) of said transportation rails. The invention also relates to a conveyor-type dishwasher comprising transportation rails (5, 6) on which transportation catches (10) are held. The transportation catches (10) are mounted such that they can pivot on shafts (8) which are oriented parallel to the conveying direction (1.1) of the transportation rack (12).
US08028813B2
Disclosed herein is a shock absorber for damping vibration transmitted to a vehicle according to a road state. The shock absorber includes a cylinder and a piston valve disposed within the cylinder and connected to a piston rod to divide the cylinder into a first chamber and a second chamber. The shock absorber further includes a hollow chamber formed within the piston rod, a floating piston disposed within the hollow chamber to move up and down and to divide the hollow chamber into upper and lower chambers, first and second orifices formed in upper and lower ends of the hollow chamber and connected to the first and second chambers, respectively, and a resistance changing mechanism configured to cooperate with the floating piston and change a fluid resistance with respect to the floating piston where the resistance changing mechanism cooperates therewith.
US08028812B2
Diffusion bonded brake rotor and hub formed by powder metallurgy including metals such as titanium powder.
US08028808B2
An assembly (30) controls the amount of downward movement of a counterweight (24) within an elevator system (20). By limiting the downward movement of the counterweight (24), a desired overhead clearance above an elevator car (22) can be maintained. One example includes at least one safety device (80, 84, 86, 88) on top of the elevator car (22) to provide an indication for when a holding member (34) should allow a stop member of the assembly (30) to move into a position to limit the downward movement of the counterweight (24). In one example, the stop member (32) moves into an employed position by the force of gravity and is manually moveable back into a retracted position when it is not needed. One example includes a guide member (60) that facilitates controlling the position of the stop member (32) when it is in the employed position.
US08028807B2
A method and device for maintenance of an elevator installation or an escalator installation communicates the presence of a maintenance technician at the elevator or escalator installation to a remote service center. The service center is thus informed about that the maintenance technician has to maintain or is maintaining or has maintained a specific installation and is in a position of checking the quality of this maintenance. The maintenance operations are recorded as a maintenance record and communicated to the service center. For example, the maintenance record contains details about which maintenance technician on which day of the year and for how long has undertaken which maintenance operations on a specific elevator or escalator installation. The quality of a thus detected maintenance can then be compared with a quality standard. In addition, the maintenance operations performed are thus uniquely detected and can be evaluated.
US08028805B2
An access ladder for accessing a ceiling from a floor. The ladder comprises a plurality of sections which telescope open and closed, and from a bottom section each section telescopes open to positively lock to the section below it with plungers that lock and unlock each section in sequence as the sections open and close, respectively. A method for using an access ladder for accessing a ceiling from a floor.
US08028799B2
A damping device and a method of damping a structural element of a vehicle body are disclosed. The damping device generally includes a carrier material, a separating material, and a damping material disposed on the carrier material. The damping material is one of a material forming an open cell structure and a material having an absorption coefficient for sound waves greater than about 0.5. The method generally includes fixing a damping device on a structural element of a vehicle, the damping device including a carrier material, a separating material, and a damping material, and one of expanding and dilating at least one of the separating material and the damping material, the damping material having one of an open cell structure and an absorption coefficient for sound waves greater than 0.5 after expansion.
US08028796B2
The present invention provides an assembly of a tire and a rim, which assembly has on the tire inner cavity side thereof a sound absorbing member capable of effectively suppressing cavity resonance and reducing road noise, while suppressing increase in weight of the tire and increase in volume of the sound absorbing member. In this assembly of a tire and a rim, the sound absorbing member is mounted on the inner cavity side of the tire as a sound absorbing layer for suppressing cavity resonance inside the tire. The sound absorbing member is unwoven cloth made of plural fibers, and the average distance d between fibers constituting the unwoven cloth is within the range of 0.50δ to 4.00δ.
US08028792B2
A speaker apparatus according to the present invention includes a phase inversion-type enclosure in which a speaker unit and a bass reflex port are installed, the bass reflex port having a tubular body whose hollow cross-sectional area gradually becomes smaller from one opening side toward an inside of the bass reflex port in an axial direction of the bass reflex port, and a length in one direction of the hollow cross section of the tubular body not changing and constant along the axial direction.
US08028788B2
A brake assembly includes a piston housing, a piston moveably arranged within the piston housing, and a bearing cover mounted to the piston housing. A spring assembly is located between the piston and the bearing cover, wherein mounting the bearing cover to the piston housing compresses the spring assembly to achieve an initial spring force. The initial spring force of the spring assembly causes the piston to act against a vehicle brake when the brake assembly is mounted to a vehicle axle that passes through the spring assembly.
US08028784B1
A trailer is provided with a bed and a slidably adjustable axle assembly. The bed includes a frame with left and right, inverted U-shaped channels. The axle assembly includes left and right rails upon which the channels are slidably mounted. Pins extend through the channels, but not through the rails, to limit sliding movement of the bed relative to the axle assembly. The pins are inserted into the channels with a twist lock action under spring bias. Lock members are provided to prevent accidental removal of a pin from the channel during travel.
US08028780B2
To ensure that an energy supply operation can be performed safely and smoothly on a vehicle having a plurality of energy ports such as a charging port, charging ports for supplying electric energy to a high voltage battery and a fuel supply port for supplying fuel to a fuel tank are provided in a vehicle body as energy supply ports. The fuel supply port and charging ports are respectively provided with lid members that are switched between a closed state and an open state by respective lock mechanisms. When closure of one lid member is released, all of the other lid members are prohibited from being switched to the open state, and therefore the number of energy supply ports having an open lid member is limited to one.
US08028776B2
A hydrostatic transmission mountable to a frame of a vehicle for driving a left side or right side drive wheel. A motor portion of the transmission can extend outwardly from the frame and a pump portion can extend upwardly from the frame. The motor portion can be configured to be at least partially received within a wheel for direct mounting of the wheel to an output shaft of the motor. The pump portion can include an input shaft extending from a lower side thereof for connection to a prime mover, such as an internal combustion engine.
US08028775B2
An omni directional mobility device made of a spherical device that is capable of omni directional movement. An omni directional vehicle including a vehicle and at least one omni directional mobility device made of a spherical device for enabling omni directional movement.
US08028768B2
A filter for a drill string comprises a perforated receptacle having an upper end and a lower end. The upper end of the filter comprises a drilling mud intake, and the lower end of the filter comprises an opening. A displaceable plug is seated on the opening at the lower end.
US08028767B2
An expandable reamer apparatus for drilling a subterranean formation may include a tubular body, one or more blades, each blade positionally coupled to a sloped track of the tubular body, a push sleeve and a drilling fluid flow path extending through an inner bore of the tubular body for conducting drilling fluid therethrough. Each of the one or more blades may be configured to ream a subterranean formation. The push sleeve may be disposed in the inner bore of the tubular body and coupled to each of the one or more blades so as effect axial movement thereof along the track to an extended position responsive to exposure to a force or pressure of drilling fluid in the flow path of the inner bore. Each blade may include one or more roller elements for reaming a wellbore.
US08028762B2
A tool assembly (10), for example a hydraulic or pneumatic hammer assembly, comprises a housing (11) defining a chamber (16), a reciprocating work tool (20) arranged in the chamber for cyclical movement in a work stroke and a return stroke, and a tool retention member (80) arranged to restrain the work tool at the end of the work stroke. The tool assembly (10) includes a shock absorber arranged to absorb impact from the work tool at the end of a stroke. The shock absorber comprises an annular resilient flange (102, 154), which may be cantilevered from the tool retention member (80) to absorb impact at the end of the work stroke or may be provided on a bushing (150) arranged to absorb impact at the end of the return stroke. The shock absorbing flange reduces the transmission of shocks into the tool assembly, thereby providing increased life for tool assembly components.
US08028757B2
A nozzle for extinguishing devices and the like, made of a material with a high heat conductivity coefficient and comprising at least one through opening, at least one portion of which is blocked hermetically by at least one pad made of thermoplastic material, the pad being automatically removable, due to the pressure of the extinguishing agent, at a preset temperature, so as to allow the automatic dispensing of the extinguishing agent.
US08028737B2
A mounting system is configured for removably mounting window treatments within and external to a window frame. Internal and external wall mounts are mounted respectively within and external to the window frame. Window treatment supports are alternately removably mountable on the internal and external wall mounts in order to mount the window treatments within and external to the window frame.
US08028725B2
A filling valve apparatus for filling a container with a fluid. The apparatus includes a body portion and a stem. A sleeve is disposed over the stem and is removable from the stem and the body portion when the filling valve apparatus is serviced. A seal is mounted to the bottom of the sleeve. At least one component is movably connected to the sleeve and remains connected to the sleeve when the sleeve is removed from the stem and the body portion during the servicing of the filling valve apparatus. Similarly, a valve assembly, having a housing and a movable plunger is removable from the body portion. At least one member is mechanically connected to one of the housing and plunger for creating a unitary valve assembly that remains intact when the valve assembly is removed from the body portion during servicing of the filling valve apparatus.
US08028714B2
The present invention provides a lateral draft tube for a water control valve core, which is defined by a through-type groove and upper and lower openings. The through-type groove is sleeved around the shell of the water control valve core. The upper and lower portions have different diameters on the external wall of the draft tube. A ring flange is formed on the upper portion, and a guide ring surface is formed on the lower portion. The ring flange is provided with a sealing ring, and a drainage portion is arranged at the lower end of the draft tube to connect the through-type groove and guide ring surface. The draft tube can be located higher than the water control valve core, such that upward flow of the guide ring surface is not limited by the water control valve core. Thus, the upward flow of the water control valve core improves.
US08028702B2
An arm support and positioning assembly is provided that includes a vertical member, an engagement member and a horizontal member having one end engaged with the vertical member through a ball joint assembly and the other end affixed with the engagement member through a wedge lock. The engagement member receives and retains a patient's arm support during the surgical or medical procedures. The vertical member is attached to the clamp support assembly affixed with the operating table. The ball joint assembly includes a first hinge plate, a second hinge plate, and a ball joint having an elongated ball neck on one end and a spherical ball on other end. The ball shape end allows the horizontal member to rotate at a varied angular position with respect to the vertical member thereby providing a greater degree of adjustability to the surgeon.
US08028692B2
A conduit assembly that delivers a flow of breathing gas to an airway of user. The conduit assembly includes a first flexible segment having a first end portion, a second end portion, and a first lumen defined therein from the first end portion to the second end portion. The conduit assembly also includes a second flexible segment having a third end portion, a fourth end portion, and a second lumen defined therein from the third end portion to the fourth end portion. A first swivel connector is coupled to the second end portion of the first segment and the third end portion of the second segment such that the first segment is rotatable relative the second segment.
US08028691B2
Passive solar wire screens mount vertically on an edifice. The screens have rods vertically arranged parallel to one another and have wires horizontally arranged parallel to one another. The wires attach to the rods and have first surfaces facing away from the edifice in an upward direction from vertical. The wires also have second surfaces facing toward the edifice in a downward direction from vertical. When the sun has a summer elevation on the horizon, the first surfaces passively reflect solar energy incident thereto away from the wire screens. When the sun has a winter elevation on the horizon, however, the first surfaces passively reflect solar energy incident thereto toward the second surfaces, which in turn passively reflect the solar energy toward the edifice. A concave surface on the wires can also reflect thermal energy back to the edifice.
US08028687B2
The invention provides a segment type diamond tool capable of improving cutting rate and reducing the amount of fine debris generated during cutting by properly arranging diamond particles in a cutting segment of the diamond tool. In the invention, the layers of diamond particles are arranged such that cutting grooves formed on a workpiece by trailing layers of diamond particles are arranged between cutting grooves formed thereon by leading layers of diamond particles, respectively, in cutting of the work piece. The cutting segment has high-concentration and low-concentration areas. The high-concentration area shows a concentration higher than an average concentration and the low concentration area shows a concentration lower than the average concentration. Also, at least one low concentration area is formed on the leading and/or trailing section of the cutting segment. The diamond tool of the invention ensures superior cutting rate and reduced amount of fine debris generated during cutting.
US08028683B1
A system for connecting a supply of alternative oil to a diesel engine which uses heated engine coolant and electric heat to prevent engine line restriction due to gelled alternative oil.
US08028669B2
A power unit for a motorcycle includes an internal combustion engine provided with a crankcase rotatably supporting a crankshaft with an axial line extending in a vehicle-width direction. An oil pump is mounted on the crankcase with a balancer rotatably supported by the crankcase. Rotational power from the crankshaft is transmitted to a pump driven member provided on a pump shall of the oil pump and to a balancer driven member coaxially interlinked with and connected to the balancer so as to transmit power to the balancer. The power unit is downsized by bringing a balancer and an oil pump into a close arrangement. The pump driven member and the balancer driven member are offset from each other in a vehicle-width direction and are located at such a position so as to at least partially overlap each other as viewed from the side of the vehicle-width direction.
US08028655B2
An inductively coupled plasma source is provided with a peripheral ionization source for producing a high-density plasma in a vacuum chamber for semiconductor wafer coating or etching. The source includes a segmented configuration having high and low radiation segments and produces a generally ring-shaped array of alternating high and low energy concentrations in the plasma around the periphery of the chamber. Energy is coupled from a segmented low inductance antenna through a dielectric window or array of windows and through a segmented shield or baffle. The antenna has concentrated conductor segments through which current flows in lengths of closely-spaced windings of a single conductor to produce high magnetic fields that couple through the high-transparency shield segments into the chamber, and alternating distributed conductor segments through which current flows in lengths of more widely-spaced windings of the conductor to produce weaker magnetic fields aligned with more opaque shield sections that couple less energy to the plasma.
US08028652B2
A plasma processing apparatus comprises a processing chamber in which a plurality of substrates are stacked and accommodated; a pair of electrodes extending in the stacking direction of the plurality of substrates, which are disposed at one side of the plurality of substrates in said processing chamber, and to which high frequency electricity is applied; and a gas supply member which supplies processing gas into a space between the pair of electrodes.
US08028651B2
A metering system for a coating installation for coating components such as vehicle body parts contains an applicator which applies the coating material supplied to it with a volumetric flow metered on-demand, a regulated first metering device which adjusts the pressure or the volumetric flow of the coating material to be applied by the applicator based on setpoints which are specified by automated installation controls, a transducer to generate a reading which matches the pressure or the volumetric flow of the coating material flowing to the applicator and a control device for regulating the metering device as a function of the specified setpoints and of the reading from the transducer. A second metering device is connected at the outlet of the regulated first metering device for the coating material flowing to the applicator which controls the pressure or volumetric flow of the said applied coating material for precision metering of the coating material applied as a function of the specified setpoints.
US08028647B2
A liquid coating applicator with a very precise means for controlling gap thickness as well as adapting to non-planar discontinuities in the substrate.
US08028646B2
Methods and systems for coating at least a portion of a medical device (e.g., a stent structure) include providing a plurality of coating particles (e.g., monodisperse coating particles) in a defined volume. For example, the particles may be provided using one or more nozzle structures, wherein each nozzle structure includes at least one opening terminating at a dispensing end. The plurality of coating particles may be provided in the defined volume by dispensing a plurality of microdroplets having an electrical charge associated therewith from the dispensing ends of the one or more nozzle structures through use of a nonuniform electrical field between the dispensing ends and the medical device. Electrical charge is concentrated on the particle as the microdroplet evaporates. With a plurality of coating particles provided in the defined volume, such particles can be moved towards at least one surface of the medical device to form a coating thereon (e.g., using an electric field and/or a thermophoretic effect).
US08028645B2
A frosting dispenser apparatus including a rotatable platform is described. The frosting dispenser apparatus comprises a body having a base and a pedestal, a rotatable platform is connected with the base and configured to rotate a baked good. Further, a dispenser is connected with the pedestal. The dispenser is located above the rotatable platform. The frosting dispenser apparatus is formed to be easy to use for a child. Additionally, the present invention includes a frosting dispenser apparatus kit which includes a frosting dispenser apparatus, a frosting, a baking mix, a mixing container, a mixing utensil, and a baking container.
US08028642B2
A whistle for producing resonant frequencies comprising a body which includes a mouth piece having an inlet, and at least two sound chambers to which inlet air is blown from the inlet. The whistle further includes air passageways for communicating inlet air from the inlet to the sound box and sound chambers. The body further includes at least two exhaust ports in communication with the sound chambers for discharging air and sound. The two sound chambers are dimensioned to create peak principal frequencies which interactively produce a pulsating sound having a periodic pulse frequency of less than 100 hertz. The whistle preferably includes air intake ports for communicating additional port air into the sound box.
US08028637B2
A method for intercepting and yawing an errant sailing vessel is disclosed, wherein the vessel might have been hijacked or malfunctioned and in danger of colliding with an object. The method comprises dispatching a watercraft to approach the sailing vessel and secures itself to one side of the sailing vessel's hull. Preferably, a second watercraft is secured to the other side of the vessel's hull. At least one of the watercrafts is then operated to direct propulsion thrust to yaw the vessel in a desired direction. Preferably still, the first and second watercrafts are each secured respectively to the right and left sides of the vessel's hull proximate to the stem or bow end. The first (right side) watercraft then operates a fluid propulsion which thrust is directed away from the vessel's right side while the second (left side) watercraft's propulsion is on standby. As a result, the vessel is turned rightward or clockwise. Conversely, the first watercraft may be put on standby while the second watercraft's propulsion is operated such that the thrust is directed away from the vessel's left side, thereby causing the vessel to turn leftward or anti-clockwise.
US08028625B2
Disclosed is a device for separating a propulsion system from a missile, the device including a locking unit configured to fix a propulsion system to a missile, a string disposed to cross a rear portion of the propulsion system to be broken by heat of the propulsion system, and an unlocking unit configured to unlock the missile by the broken string, whereby the number of additional components of an unlocking system can be reduced as many as possible so as to simplify the configuration of the apparatus, resulting in guaranteeing an enhanced performance of the missile, an easy assembly of the missile, and a reduction of a fabricating cost.
US08028612B2
A laminated, optically transparent, ballistic resistant structure is described as having a first transparent layer, a second transparent layer of ceramic tiles spread across the first layer, and a third transparent layer. The first and third layers are bonded to opposite sides of the second layer, respectively, by transparent adhesive. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US08028609B2
A work sheet processing system enables the effective utilization, of a redundant work sheet corresponding to a material work sheet from which product work sheets have been cut. The work sheet processing system includes a work sheet processing machine that performs a processing operation of cutting a product word sheet from a material work sheet, a redundant work sheet stocker that stores a redundant work sheet that is a remaining part of the material work sheet from which the product work sheet has been cut by the work sheet processing machine, and carry-in and carry-out means for carrying out the redundant work sheet stored in the redundant work sheet stocker into the original work sheet processing machine or another work sheet processing machine.
US08028607B2
A ratcheting tool including a handle formed with an integral yoke at a first end and a tool head coupled to the yoke at a pivot. The tool head has a toothed hub facing rearwardly of the pivot and into the yoke. A locking spool is rotatably carried in the yoke adjacent the toothed hub. The locking spool has a first face, a second face, and a first tooth extending along both the first face and the second face and engaging the toothed hub. The locking spool is rotatable between a first position in which the first face is adjacent the toothed hub, thereby locking the tool head in a selected angular position with respect to the handle, and a second position in which the second face is adjacent the toothed hub such that the tool head is pivotable about the pivot.
US08028605B2
A circular dividing table includes a brake assembly, in which the piston return spring urges the annular piston with the bottom face of its annular groove. The piston retracts backward and the floating pad return plate contacts the bracket extending inward within the cylindrical bore of the floating pad, thus urging the floating pad backward. Due to the backward displacement of the floating pad, the floating pad is forced to retract from the brake disc. Using a circular dividing table equipped with such a brake assembly, it is possible to release the clamping members forcibly and to make the action of clamping or unclamping precise and conducted with a high responsive speed.
US08028598B2
A high-strength, high-precision injection-molded gear in which resin flow regulating projections that partially thicken a web are formed in a position on a side surface side of the web between pin point gates and a teeth section such as to project from the side surface of the web. The resin flow regulating projections are formed such that a center section thereof, the highest in height, is on a radial direction line extending from the pin point gates in the outward radial direction and the height gradually decreases away from the position on the radial direction line in a circumferential direction of the web.
US08028597B2
A low horsepower transmission is disclosed. In one embodiment, a drive shaft is operably coupled to a prime mover and a driven shaft is axially aligned with the drive shaft and operably coupled to a rotary load. Two sets of geared wheels are aligned and rotatably mounted to opposite sides of the drive shaft and the driven shaft. A shuttle clutch positioned on the driven shaft is operable to reciprocate between mating engagement with a clutch associated with the first set of geared wheels and a clutch associated with the second set of geared wheels. The engagement of the shuttle clutch determines which set of geared wheels will transmit torque.
US08028595B2
An adjusting device for seating and reclining furniture includes a basis case, a screw rotatable axis, a guide area, an adjuster and a side cover. A notching is set at the upper end face of the guide area. A slider inside of the adjuster is combined with the upper wall of a perforating in the guide area by a connection portion. The width of the connection portion is set corresponding to the width of the notching of the guide area, and a perforated panel is set at the center of the connection portion to make a fender board impenetrate. The fender board may shield the notching of the guide area. A chamber is set in the upper end face of the adjuster corresponding to the position of the perforated panel from top to bottom. The chamber may hold a felt containing lubricating oil. There is a bearing chamber in the inner wall of the side cover. The bearing chamber may make the bearings embed in, and a bearing are pivoted and combined with the end of the screw rotatable axis.
US08028592B2
An electronic metering apparatus for metering liquids, with a longitudinal, handleable housing, a drive, arranged in the housing, with an electric motor, at least one displacer device, arranged in the housing or being capable to be arranged on the same, with a displacer element, which is connected to the drive and/or connectable to the same, at least one holding device on the bottom end of the housing for holding a pipette point or a syringe, at least one electric operational control in or on the housing, at least one electric information device in or on the housing, an electric control unit arranged in the housing, which is connected to the electric motor, the electric operational control and the electric information device, and which controls the information device depending on the position and/or previous changes of the position of the displacer element, in order to put out an information concerning the next reasonable dislocation of the displacer element, and an electric power supply.
US08028591B2
Systems and methods are provided that can include a storage and retrieval robot operating under program control to extract a selective number of support beads from a storage or retainment region, for dispensing to titer wells or other vessels for assays and other purposes. According to various embodiments, the storage and retrieval robot can position a capture device over any one or more storage wells containing oligonucleotide or other material support beads, and withdraw or extract those support beads into a collection tube under vacuum pressure or other force. According to various embodiments, a selected number of support beads can be extracted, using a linear motor piston to limit available space for support bead insertion. According to various embodiments, the collected support beads can be dispensed into one or more destination tubes, wells, or other containers, surfaces, vessels, receptacles or mixture containment region, for use in assays or other purposes. According to various embodiments, a calculated plurality of support beads can be extracted or mixed in selective quantities. According to various embodiments, a sample subset of the supply support beads can be taken, to calculate an amount of actual oligonucleotide contained in the support beads. According to various embodiments, an adjustment or normalization of the number of support beads dispensed can be performed to compensate for variations in oligonucleotide amount, thereby enhancing the uniformity of concentration in solution.
US08028581B2
A method of inspecting a rotatable shaft for the presence of defects may include continuously rotating a shaft under an applied load. As the shaft is rotated, an ultrasonic signal may be propagated along the length of the shaft. Attenuated or reflected ultrasonic signals may be collected from the shaft as the shaft is rotated. The presence of a defect in the shaft is determined by analyzing the collected ultrasonic signals.
US08028577B2
A gravity survey is conducted by obtaining relative gravity measurements from a plurality of survey points using a relative gravimeter, obtaining absolute gravity measurements from a subset of a lesser plurality of the survey points designated as combination survey points, determining a correction factor related to any difference between the relative and absolute gravity measurements at each of the combination survey points, and correcting the relative gravity measurements made at the survey points which are not combination survey points using the correction factor. The absolute and corrected relative gravity measurements at the survey points constitute the gravity survey.
US08028575B2
A liquid level detecting device includes a rotative member having a bearing portion and a stationary member having an axis portion. The axis portion is fitted to a hole of the bearing portion, thereby rotatably holding the rotative member. The rotative member is integrated with a displacement member. The stationary member is fixed with a detection unit to detect a displacement of the displacement member. The rotative member is connected with a float via an arm. The axis portion has an inserted portion inserted in the bearing portion and in contact with the bearing portion via a contact portion. The contact portion has a total area that is less than an area of an outer circumferential periphery of the inserted portion.
US08028574B2
An oil level detecting device for detecting an oil level in an oil storing chamber formed in a crankcase of an engine includes a fan, a power generator and an oil level determination unit. The fan is rotated by an oil flow produced by dipping up oil for lubricating the engine. In response to rotation of the fan, the generator generates a corresponding amount of electric power on the basis of which the oil level determination unit determines the oil level.
US08028572B2
An Omnidirectional rain gauge measures an azimuth and zenith direction of flying rainwater. The Omnidirectional rain gauge includes catchment and measurement units. The catchment unit has a plural conical cylinders having individually different heights, and being overlaid so that bottom vertexes of the plural conical cylinders coincide with or come close to each other. The overlaid plural conical cylinders are partitioned by partitions, arranged radially in a plurality of horizontal azimuth directions, to form a plurality of catchment cells. Each of the plurality of partitions is shaped as semicircle following a virtual spherical outer circumference. Diameter of each of top opening parts opposite to the bottom vertexes, of the overlaid plural conical cylinders is sized to follow virtual spherical outer circumference. The measurement unit, by the rainwater caught by each of the plurality of catchment cells of the catchment unit dropping in a drop of water of a certain weight, detects the number of the dropping drops of water with respect to each of the plurality of catchment cells, and determines the amount of the rainwater caught by each of catchment cells on the basis of the total detected number of the drops of water.
US08028571B2
Apparatus and method for determining pressure in a well is provided. A sensor for determining the rate of change of pressure in a well comprises: a first cavity body defining an enclosed volume, a portion of one wall of the cavity body being constituted by a pressure sensitive membrane capable of exposure to the well pressure so as to be responsive thereto; and a first capillary connected to the first cavity body at one end and being open to the well pressure at the other end so as to provide pressure communication between the well pressure and the interior of the first cavity body; wherein a length of the first capillary, an internal diameter of the first capillary, and the volume of the first cavity body are such that the sensor has a predetermined pressure response that comprises an input minus a low-pass filtered version of the input, and a predetermined time constant.
US08028568B2
A method for determining the angular speed of a drive shaft of an internal combustion engine at each tooth event of a phonic wheel presenting a number N of teeth includes detecting the angular amplitude for each tooth; detecting the time of each tooth; and determining the raw angular speed of each tooth according to the corresponding angular amplitude and time. For each tooth a compensation value is determined which represents the difference between the actual angular amplitude of the tooth and the theoretic angular amplitude of the tooth; and determining the angular speed of each tooth by correcting the raw angular speed based on the corresponding compensation value.
US08028567B2
AFM tweezers that include a first probe, including a triangular prism member having a tip of a ridge which is usable as a probe tip in a scanning probe microscope, and a second probe, including a triangular prism member provided so as to open/close with respect to the first probe, are provided. The first probe and the second probe are juxtaposed such that a predetermined peripheral surface of the triangular prism member of the first probe and a predetermined peripheral surface of the triangular prism member of the second probe face substantially in parallel to each other, and the first probe formed of a notch that prevents interference with a sample when the sample is scanned by the tip of the ridge.
US08028565B2
There is described a novel tool and method for the isolation and pressure-testing of connections, such as welds, between a vessel and a nozzle or branch pipe. The nozzle testing tool comprises an improved seal that expands into sealing contact as testing pressure is increased. The tool can also be easily adjusted in order to accommodate variations in nozzle configuration.
US08028561B2
The invention is directed at a method of sensing hydrogen gas in a liquid comprising: providing a measuring device comprising a hydrogen sensing chamber and a palladium hydrogen sensor mounted in contact with said chamber, positioning a hydrogen permeable membrane between the liquid and the hydrogen sensor and creating a headspace, selectively providing air to the sensor headspace, thereby bringing air into contact with said palladium sensor to refresh the palladium, after the palladium sensor is refreshed shutting off air flow to the sensor headspace, bringing liquid into said chamber, allowing hydrogen to pass through the membrane and reach equilibrium, and reading the hydrogen concentration.
US08028542B2
Glass articles are made by continuously emitting a plurality of strands of molten glass spaced different distances from respective preform molds, cutting through each of the strands by moving together a respective pair of blades to form a respective gob, and transporting the gobs through the respective distances to the preform molds. The pairs of blades are operated, that is moved from an open to a closed position, such that they cut through the respective strands one after the other with the first formed gob traveling through the longest distance to the respective preform mold and the last formed gob traveling through the shortest distance to the respective preform mold.
US08028536B2
A portable, combination dehydrator, dry return air and condensed water generator/dispenser configured to alternately provide water from a reservoir of condensed water or from an alternative source of water. In one embodiment, the alternative source comprises a five-gallon bottle of water and the mounting for the bottle includes a removable cover for preventing contamination of the system when the bottle is not in place. In one embodiment, the system provides purified dry make-up air to a home or office air conditioning system and dehydration cabinet, while producing pure atmospheric condensation from humidity found in the air and purifying the air and water for breathing, dispensing and drinking purposes.
US08028535B2
The present invention relates to a system for depressurisation of high pressure pipeline fluids. The system may provide for net power generation without the pressurised fluid undergoing liquefaction or solidification or unacceptable temperature reduction as a result of a Joule-Thompson process. The system is particularly relevant for depressurising high pressure natural gas pipelines in an energy efficient manner whilst making possible net power generation. The system for depressurisation of a pressurised fluid in a pipeline comprises at least one depressuriser for expanding the fluid in the pipeline to a lower pressure; and a transcritical heat pump for circulating a supercritical fluid, wherein the supercritical fluid undergoes cooling so as to release heat for transmission to the pressurised fluid in the pipeline prior to at least one expansion of said pressurised fluid.
US08028533B2
A defrost indicator is configured such that the process of freezing and defrosting the defrost indicator places the defrost indicator into a state that is not completely reversed by refreezing, so that one can detect whether the defrost indicator defrosted and refroze or never defrosted by observing its current state. In an embodiment, the defrost indicator is initially placed in a first state before being frozen (e.g., upside down with fluid in an upper chamber). Freezing the defrost indicator places it in a second state (e.g., with the fluid frozen in the upper chamber). Then when the defrost indicator is defrosted, the defrost indicator is placed into a third state that is different than the first state (e.g., right-side-up with liquid fluid in the lower chamber). If the defrost indicator is again frozen, the defrost indicator is placed into a fourth state (e.g., the fluid frozen in the lower chamber).
US08028524B2
A supercharger for an internal combustion engine having an internal reservoir adapted to receive a supply of lubricating oil. An oil slinger is mounted on the impeller shaft for rotation therewith that extends into the reservoir for collecting and slinging lubricating oil onto the supercharger bearings, shafts and the drive and impeller gears. A baffle assembly is carried by the interior of the supercharger housing for controlling the volume and flow of lubricating oil onto said gears and bearings and directing oil flow therefrom back into said reservoir to prevent excessive lubrication buildup on the gears and the deleterious effects that result therefrom.
US08028521B2
The invention relates to a catapult drive for an object to be accelerated, preferably the car of a fairground ride, wherein the object is accelerated by means of a driving element. The movement of the driving element is produced by a flexible drive and a hydraulic cylinder via which all movements of the driving element can be controlled. The invention also relates to a control system for suitably controlling the inventive catapult drive.
US08028514B2
The problem is to regenerate the purification ability of an exhaust gas purification device more reliably or efficiently in an exhaust gas purification system that combines a plurality of branch passages branch off from an exhaust gas passage and exhaust gas purification devices. When the purification ability of an exhaust gas purification device is regenerated, in the branch passage where the exhaust gas purification device is provided whose purification ability is to be regenerated, the opening angle of an exhaust gas flow volume control valve is set to the minimum opening angle that can reliably transport a reducing agent that is added from a reducing agent addition section. While the opening angle is maintained, the reducing agent is added. After the addition of the reducing agent is complete, the opening angle of an exhaust gas flow volume control valve is closed completely.
US08028504B2
Changing or feeding, respectively, of a working tool (11) into a workstation (110) of a packaging machine (1) takes place by varying a distance of a receiving unit having arranged the working tools (11), with respect to a support rack (15) by means of a lifting device (200). By means of a shifting means (300) the working tool (11) can be shifted from the support (10) into the workstation (110), or reverse. Therein, the support (10) can be formed such that it is movable out of the packaging machine (1).
US08028498B2
A Method of Processing a Container and Base Cup Structure For Removal of Vacuum Pressure A plastic container (10) has a wall extending to a lower portion including a pressure panel (20). The panel (20) is transversely oriented and can move from a downwardly inclined position providing a geometrically unstable configuration to an upwardly inclined position providing a geometrically stable configuration to control pressure change in the container. This movement may be provided by suitable actuating means such as rod (22). In the unstable configuration a base cup 50 or any other suitable holder can support the container and enable it to be conveyed in a container handling or processing system.
US08028495B2
Fastening element for dry construction elements, and method for the production of such a fastening element.
US08028491B2
A replaceable, wet-set tactile warning surface unit having a body defining an upper surface and a lower surface, the body defining a series of raised projections on its upper surface, and defining a plurality of spaced through-holes from the top to the bottom surface, in which the raised projections are spaced from one another and the through-holes are located between projections. An anchor member such as a threaded insert is coupled to the bottom surface of the unit member directly below each of the through-holes by fasteners such as bolts that pass through the through-holes.
US08028489B1
A framed window screen formed from four (4) rails which each include a channel, a wide groove and a narrow groove and are each cut at a forty-five degree (45°) angle at the terminal ends. A durable, sturdy corner connector joins each rail one to another, which may be molded from a durable polymeric material having an L-shaped member, a groove support and a stanchion. The groove support is V-shaped and joined to the L-shaped member by a rib. Each end of the L-shaped member of the connector is inserted into adjacent rail channels with the groove support positioned in the wide grooves of the adjacent rails. Once the screen frame is assembled using the connectors, a suitably cut screen wire can be placed over the frame with the edges proximate the narrow groove whereby a rubber seal is inserted to maintain the screen in the narrow groove by friction.
US08028487B2
Load bearing and non-load bearing frames for walls, roofs and floors are prefabricated according to a predetermined building plan and made to disengage and collapse to a compact and intact frame, where, as with a wall frame, studs are resting against one another and the upper and lower tracks are in close approximation to each other, separated only by said resting studs. Said frames for walls, roofs and floors can be readily be transported to a construction site, where the collapsed frames are expanded, engaged, stabilized and permanently plumbed and braced.
US08028483B2
An insulating panel includes a first sheet, a second sheet, and a body of insulating foam between the sheets. The foam has a plurality of longitudinally extending conduits through which a heat exchange medium such as air is circulated. A barrier is used to create an enlarged void space for air circulation. The barrier is located below profile crowns to prevent foam from entering the crowns and to create additional foam-free voids below the crown. Heat transfer efficiency is increased.
US08028481B2
A caisson system having an attachment plate fastened to ceiling joists; compressible spacers to allow for the attachment plate to be perfectly straight; caisson frames consisting of a combination of a pair of length planks and a pair of width planks to create a generally rectangular structure; length cover planks and width cover planks, along with tiles to finish the caisson frames.
US08028480B2
This application describes a wall construction and method of making the same in generally a Piece-en-piece mode. A vertical mortise is provided in adjacent vertical timber members and vertical mortises are cut into the end faces of horizontal timber members expected to be placed between adjacent vertical member. When the horizontal timber members are in place the vertical mortises align and wooden or metal splines can be inserted into the mortises thus securing the horizontal members laterally while still allowing them to move vertically to account for, for example, shrinkage in the wood. By substituting a mortise for a tenon, this invention reduces manufacturing costs and reduces assembly time and costs, as each horizontal timber can be set directly into place without lifting it to the top of the upright timber members.
US08028474B2
The rain gutter debris prophylactic system has a first panel member and a second panel member joined by a trough with drains in the bottom. The trough helps regulate water flow, discourages water accumulation on the surface or the formation of icicles on the edge of the prophylactic. The front edge of the trough forms a water accelerator. In addition the drains formed in the trough allow the prophylactic to be bent by hand to match the angle formed between the roof and the gutter without heavy equipment such as hand brakes. Multiple sections may be bent simultaneously. Finally the system combines at least three water flow management techniques, namely a first set of drain holes, pooling ridges and a curved nose to conduct water over the edge of the gutter.
US08028469B2
In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides an automated seed sampling and sorting system. The system includes an imaging station for collecting image data of a set of seeds and a seed orientation station for independently positioning each seed in the set in a desired orientation based on the collected image data. The system further includes a seed sample and sort station for extracting a sample from each seed in the set, sorting each sample to a sample tray and sorting each sampled seed to a seed tray.
US08028467B2
Provided is an apparatus for capturing live insects that includes an upper section having side walls, a top cover, and plural openings in the side walls that are large enough to permit insects to enter. This upper portion houses a light source and is well-suited to attracting and trapping insects in the first instance. An enclosed lower section is well-suited to trapping the insects on a more permanent basis. Between the upper section and the enclosed lower section is a funnel, having a wide opening adjacent to the upper section and tapering to a narrow opening within the lower section.
US08028466B1
A thwartable link for a vertical fishing line includes a substantially tubularly shaped body having a first end and a second end and first and second opposed side walls extending between the first and second ends. Each of the side walls has an axially extending elongated slot passing therethrough. A knife blade is located within the interior of the tubular body adjacent the first end but facing the second end. The fishing line extends through the slots in the side walls and through the interior of the tubular body. A stop is attached to the line adjacent the first side of the tubular body preventing the line from being pulled through the elongated slot in the first side. A tether extends between the second end of the tubular body and the line. The tether is connected to the line on the same side as the stop means but is spaced therefrom. An elastic O-ring surrounding the tubular body temporarily retains the line adjacent the second end of the tubular member. Applying a tensioning force on the line on the second side of the body causes the line to slide axially in the slots toward the knife blade to be severed by the knife blade. A time release device in the tether disconnects the tether from the tubular member after a pre-selected period of time.
US08028465B1
A fishing lure has a lip, a paddle, and a hook extending rearwardly therefrom. The lip includes a first surface that includes an eyelet extending therefrom. The paddle extends from the lip on a vertical plane during use of the fishing lure, the paddle having opposed side surfaces that together counterbalance the movement of the lure imparted by the lip, to steer the fishing lure in the direction of movement. The hook has a shank and a barbed point, the shank being fixedly attached to and extending from the paddle such that the hook lies on the same vertical plane as the paddle, and such that the hook extends rearwardly opposite the direction of movement. A method of assembly of the fishing lure with a soft pliable bait is also disclosed.
US08028464B2
A customized fishing lure system having a lip, leading portion, trailing portion, body portion, a hook and connection mechanism. The lip being adapted to provide resistance when said fishing lure is moved within water. The leading portion being positioned towards the leading portion of said fishing lure. The trailing portion being positioned towards the trailing portion of said fishing lure. The body portion being positioned between said leading portion and said trailing portion. The hook being attached to said fishing lure. The first connection mechanism adapted to releasably engage said lip to said leading portion.A plurality of packaging and marketing embodiments intended to accentuate the benefits of the present invention.
US08028459B2
Embodiments of the application can include an integrated rail system construction for a firearm with transverse ribs or tabs (e.g., picatinny rail) to include an undercut or slot at a front and/or rear face to cooperate with mounting structure for a detachable accessory. Embodiments of a rail structure can include a channel to pass wires used to power accessories mounted to the rail. Embodiments of the application can include methods for manufacturing an integral rail system.
US08028447B2
According to one embodiment, a decorative block comprising an open celled constructing block and a support rod suspending one or more ornaments such as art, logos and/or other decorative images or designs as part of a wall is provided.
US08028443B2
Articles of footwear and footwear systems include modules, e.g., for sensing physical and/or physiological characteristics associated with use of the footwear or for performing other functions. Such systems and methods may use physical or other interaction(s) between the module and the article of footwear for activating and/or deactivating the module and/or sensing devices included with the module, for confirming whether the module and footwear are authorized for use with one another, and/or for automatic data algorithm selection methods. Additionally, such systems and methods also may use the activation and/or authentication systems for the module for data input to the module. Some examples of such systems and methods may utilize magnets and magnetic sensing systems and/or light (or other radiation) sources and sensing systems for activation, authentication, data input, and/or algorithm selection.
US08028441B2
A shoe system is provided that comprises an upper unit, a sole unit, and a support structure. The upper unit and the sole unit can be interconnected utilizing respective upper and lower connecters. The support structure can define a first portion that is coupled to the sole unit. The support structure can extend inwardly from a periphery of the sole unit and extend above a lower edge of the upper unit when the sole unit is coupled to the upper unit.
US08028440B2
Articles of footwear include a textile upper member with an exterior constructed from knitted textile material, the exterior including a region with stability ribs and a second unribbed region. The region(s) having stability ribs may be located, for example: along a lateral midfoot side of the upper member; along a forefoot portion of the upper member; and/or along a medial midfoot side of the upper member. Other articles of footwear include an upper member having exterior and interior textile elements joined together in a stitchless manner at the foot-receiving opening of the upper member. The exterior surface of this upper member also may include one or more regions with stability structures. The stitchless textile engagement techniques can provide a smooth, non-bulky, and breathable joint that does not require thick layers of textile material in contact with or adjacent the wearer's foot.
US08028439B2
A clothes dryer bearing structure has an arcuate channel for receiving the open end of a dryer drum. The channel has an inner wall portion, a base wall portion extending radially outward from the inner wall portion and an outer wall portion extending from the base wall portion. A gasket is positioned in the channel in contact with the dryer drum. The outer wall portion has a plurality of spaced apart elongated clips formed on the outer wall portion and curving back into the channel. At least one of the outer wall portion and the base wall portion has a plurality of elongated bumps protruding into the channel. Each of the elongated bumps is interspaced between the elongated clips whereby the gasket lies serpentinely in the channel ascending over bumps and descending below the clips to prevent slippage of the gasket along the channel during dryer drum rotation.
US08028438B2
A moisture control system generally comprising a collector element is configured to be incorporated into a structure to control moisture condensation on the interior and exterior of the structure. The collector element encourages condensation on its surface. The control system includes a channel in fluid communication with the collector element to direct the condensed liquid away from the control element.
US08028434B2
A multi-purpose spacer provides working surfaces for properly spacing studs, joists, rafters, and decking. The spacer (also referred to herein as a “tool” or “jig”) includes an adjustable spacer for balusters used in staircase railings, deck railings, and the like. The spacer may be constructed of a light metal, preferably aluminum, or suitably rugged plastic, and may also include a removable, padded handle to ease transport and use. Embodiments of the invention provide a spacing tool that is (for all practical purposes and in accordance with typical tolerances in the framing carpentry industry) completely temperature- and humidity-immune as well as waterproof.
US08028428B2
An Improved target for surveying has a body including a connector member, a stem member connecting the connector member to the body, a spirit level member connected to a surface of the body, a rod member extending vertically from a top side of the body, and a horizontal line drawn on a vertical surface of the body; and a bracket adapted to be rigidly affixed to a wall or post member, the bracket including a receptacle member adapted to receive and rigidly hold the connector member in a chosen position.
US08028419B2
In one embodiment, a folding knife comprises a handle portion and first and second nesting blades pivotally coupled to the handle portion for pivoting movement between respective open and closed positions. The second blade in one embodiment is formed with a recess or notch which is sized and shaped to receive the first blade, allowing both blades to pivot within a common plane. The knife can also include a locking mechanism that is operable to retain the blades against pivoting movement when the blades are in their respective open positions. In particular configurations, the locking mechanism comprises a resilient locking arm configured to lock both blades in their open positions or first blade alone in its respective locking position. In certain embodiments, a folding tool comprises plural nesting tool elements other than knife blades.
US08028401B2
A method of fabricating a conducting crossover structure for a power inductor comprises stamping a first lead frame to define a first terminal and a second terminal; stamping a second lead frame to define a first terminal and a second terminal; and locating an insulating material between and in contact with the first and second lead frames to form a laminate.
US08028391B2
A belt lacer uses a power drive carriage for clinching hook or C-shaped belt lacing elements to a belt end. Optionally, the carriage may be driven in a manual mode or a power mode. A detachable power drive such as from an electric drill may be used for the power mode. The power drive of the carriage may be stopped short of an end wall and a return mechanism may return the carriage to the power drive. A moveable belt support in a hand space position allows for working on the lacing elements and may be shifted to a belt supporting position. The belt clamp exerts a forwardly directed force on the belt as it is being clamped. Face plates or combs may be stored on the belt lacer. A latch secures the face plates against lateral sliding during clinching by clinching rollers on the carriage.
US08028388B2
A system for manufacturing self-retaining suture is disclosed. The system includes a cutting bed for creating and supporting a suture during cutting of tissue-grasping elements at different angular positions. A cutting device is moved through the suture thread along a path which can include longitudinal, transverse, oscillating and depth components to create a desired tissue-grasping element on the surface of the suture. The path of the cutting device and the rotation of the suture relative to the cutting device are controlled so that a plurality of angularly-displaced tissue-grasping elements can be created on the suture.
US08028382B2
A child safe fastening device including a clip, one or more than one padded layer covering one or more surfaces of the clip and one or more than one cover layer secured to the padded layer. The clip, the padded layer, and the cover layer form a plush device.
US08028373B2
A vacuum cleaner (2) having a body (4) having a floorhead (6) and an elongate handle (14) pivotably mounted to the body is disclosed. A door (24) is provided on an end (20) of a collection chamber (12) opposite to a clean air outlet, and a coarse filter (32) and fine filter (46) are located within the collection chamber for separating out debris entrained with dirty air and depositing the debris in the collection chamber. An interior face of the door is provided with radial tangs (68), and an end face (48) of the fine filter is provided with radial tangs (60) such that when the door is closed and the elongate handle is pivoted relative to the body, the fine filter and coarse filter rotate relative to each other to cause cleaning of the filter elements.
US08028372B2
A blower/vacuum device includes a base supported on wheels. The device (10) has a reservoir (bag) that receives material collected by the device. Mounted on the base is a motor and impeller assembly that draws air inward and delivers the air (with collected material) to the bag. The assembly can also be operated to provide a forward delivery directed air stream.
US08028370B2
A cleaning machine for cleaning a surface is provided. The cleaning machine includes a base assembly that moves along the surface and a liquid distribution system associated with the base assembly for distributing the cleaning solution to the cleaning surface. A suction nozzle assembly is mounted to the base assembly and includes a front nozzle portion and a rear nozzle portion. The front nozzle portion defines a fluid flow path having an inlet opening and an outlet opening and the rear nozzle portion defines a fluid flow path having an inlet opening and an outlet opening. A suction source is in fluid communication with the suction nozzle for applying suction to draw the cleaning solution and dirt from the surface and through the suction nozzle assembly. The fluid flow path of the front nozzle portion is closed in response to the base assembly moving in one of the forward direction and rear direction. The fluid flow path of the rear nozzle portion is closed in response to the base assembly moving in other one of the forward and rear direction.
US08028365B2
A cleaning tool generally comprises a hub having a longitudinal axis and a plurality of cleaning members. The cleaning members, formed of a fibrous material, are connected to the hub. In accordance with one embodiment, the cleaning members are distributed along the longitudinal axis. Also disclosed is a floor cleaning machine that includes a mobile body, the cleaning tool and a motor. The mobile body supports the cleaning tool and the motor and is configured to travel over a surface. The motor is configured to drive a rotation of the cleaning hub about the longitudinal axis.
US08028364B2
A commercial washing machine that can be easily repaired and inspected and a washing method of the same are disclosed. The commercial washing machine includes a machine body for performing a predetermined washing cycle to laundry placed therein, a money depositing device mounted at one side of the machine body for allowing a user to deposit money therein, a control unit for controlling the washing cycle of the machine body, and a termination signal input device electrically connected to the control unit for allowing a signal for terminating the washing cycle in progress to be inputted thereto from the outside. The washing method includes detecting whether money has been deposited, performing a washing cycle including a washing operation, a rinsing operation, or a spin-drying operation according to the selection of a user, and terminating the washing cycle according to a termination signal inputted from the outside, irrespective of whether the remaining operations exist.
US08028355B2
An integrated bathroom electronic system including a plurality of sensors to detect conditions within a bathroom and to provide signals indicative thereof to a controller. A plurality of distinct and exclusive modules or subsystems are illustratively provided for integration into the system. Such modules may include a quick hot water module, a roman tub module, a custom shower module, a hands free faucet module, and a tub shower module. In certain illustrative shower modules, a user interface includes a plurality of user defined presets, each preset including a shower setting stored in memory.
US08028353B1
A foam interlining device for swimming pools with pressure activated adhesive is shown. The device is disposed between the pool liner and the swimming pool backup wall. The interlining is also constructed with both a mounting adhesive and a self-sealing coating. The self-sealing coating seals minor punctures and tears of the pool liner. In one embodiment, the edge of the interlining also functions as an expansion joint between a deck and the swimming pool coping and as an underlayment or sill seal for the coping. The interlining device is also shown premounted on the backup-wall-side of the pool liner.
US08028352B1
A pool covering apparatus includes a tube that forms a continuous loop. The tube is positionable around a perimeter edge of the pool. A flexible panel is attached to the tube and covers an area bounded by the tube. The panel covers the pool when the tube is positioned around the pool. The panel has an area dimension greater than an area dimension bounded by the tube. A lift assembly is attached to the tube and the panel. The lift assembly lifts the cover above a plane of the tube.
US08028351B2
A gasket system (18) is provided for use with a protective boot (12) and a pant leg (16) of a protective garment (14) for a firefighter or other emergency worker. The boot (12) includes an outer boot (24) and a moisture/vapor barrier liner (26), and the leg (16) includes an outer shell (20) and a moisture/vapor barrier liner (22). The gasket system (18) includes a first gasket (30) fixed to the liner (22) of the pant leg (16) and defining a first annular interlock (34) to encircle a wearer's leg received in the pant leg (16), and a second gasket (32) fixed to at least one of the outer boot (24) and the boot liner (26) and defining a second annular interlock (36) to encircle a wearer's leg received in the boot (12). The first and second interlocks (34,36) are engageable with each other to form a seal with a leg received in both the boot (12) and the pant leg (16).
US08028350B2
Described herein are various embodiments of eyewear provided for advantageous use in sports and work, as well as in casual activity. According to one embodiment, an eyeglass can include a frame and an eyecup assembly coupled to the frame. The eyecup assembly can include a resilient side member that has a first proximal portion that is fixed relative to the frame and a second distal portion that is movable relative to the frame and biased toward the frame. The eyecup assembly can also include an adjustment mechanism that is coupled to the resilient side member and positioned at least partially between the resilient side member and the frame. The adjustment mechanism can be selectively operable to flex the resilient side member to move the second distal portion away from the frame and to un-flex the resilient side member to move the second distal portion toward the frame.
US08028349B2
A protective helmet is composed of an external crown made from plastic material, and a semi-rigid neckband adjustable by adjustment means. To ensure that the helmet is efficiently secured on the user's head regardless of his or her hair-style, the neckband is in the shape of an Omega composed of lateral securing zones and a curved central part for free passage of the user's hair worn in a pony tail. The ends of the lateral securing zones of the neckband are joined to the adjustment means.
US08028344B2
A hinge mechanism for attaching ear accessories to a helmet allows an accessory to be attached at a point outside the helmet shell utilizing, for example, a slidable mounting rail, and to reach under the edge of the helmet shell so that the accessory is supported in contact with the wearer's head. The hinge mechanism is well suited for use in connection with military helmets that have a “bulge” or protrusion over the ear.
US08032940B1
A system and method are provided to generate a secure integrated development environment (IDE). In one embodiment, a plurality of modules in a source code associated with a conventional IDE is detected. One or more modules of the plurality of modules that are to be modified are identified. One or more modifying components are identified and are to be associated with the one or more modules that are to be modified. A secure IDE is generated by updating the conventional IDE by modifying the one or more modules in the source code associated with the conventional IDE, wherein the one or more modules are modified by associating the one or more modifying components to the corresponding one or more modules.
US08032937B2
A worm is a malicious process that autonomously spreads itself from one host to another. To infect a host, a worm must somehow copy itself to the host. The method in which a worm transmits a copy of itself produces network traffic patterns that can be generalized as a traffic behavior. As a worm spreads itself across the network, the propagation of the traffic behavior can be witnessed as hosts are infected, one after another. By monitoring the network traffic for propagations of traffic behaviors, a presence of a worm can be detected.
US08032933B2
One embodiment creates a model of the traffic through a network firewall and uses that model to dynamically manipulate the network firewall. The firewall model defines nodes, connections between the nodes, and firewall rules applicable to the nodes, the connections between the nodes, or a combination thereof. Each of the nodes represents simultaneously a source and a destination for data packets. The firewall rules include dynamic chains of rules having defined places where firewall rules may be dynamically inserted into or deleted from the firewall while the firewall is operating on one or more machines connected to network segments where the nodes reside.
US08032927B2
Computer-implemented system and methods for authenticating the identity of a person, for example a customer (1) of an E-Commerce web site (15). The web site or other verification “client” (110) contacts a verification engine (10, 100) (“Authentex”), which may be implemented as a web server (604). The verification engine (10), in turn, has limited access to a plurality of independent, third-party secure databases (21, 112) which are maintained by Trusted Validators (3, 610, 620, etc), which are entities such as banks that have a pre-existing relationship with customer (FIG. 4), and due to that relationship, acquire and maintain “out-of-wallet” data (4) that may be useful to authenticate the identity of the customer. That confidential customer data—held by the third-party “Trusted Validators”—is not disclosed.
US08032925B2
A method and terminal for enabling a login, and a method for establishing a session with a specific object, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes: if a first client logs in to the service server using user authentication information and then a second client requests a login to the service server, checking whether the first client is logged out from the service server; and if the checking step indicates that the first client is logged out from the service server, enabling the second client to be logged in to the service server.
US08032922B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that provides access to an application-resource. During operation, the system receives a request to access an application-resource associated with an application, wherein the request is received at an application-server that hosts the application. The system then determines an authentication-level required to access the application-resource. Next, the system sends the required authentication-level to an authentication-server. In response, the system receives an authentication-response from the authentication-server. Next, the system determines if the authentication-response specifies that the user is authenticated to access the application-resource. If so, the system grants the user access to the application-resource.One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that provides an authentication-token associated with a lower authentication-level in response to an authentication-token associated with a higher authentication-level expiring. Note that the lower authentication-level meets or exceeds a required authentication-level and does not require a user to re-authenticate.
US08032918B2
Application gadget techniques are described. In an implementation, a remote control device includes a display device and one or more modules. The one or more modules are configured to initiate one or more control functions related to control of a display of content by a client. The one or more modules also provide an environment to execute one or more application gadgets such that an output of the one or more application gadgets is displayable on the display device.
US08032917B2
A Download Control Message instructs a set-top terminal in a cable television system to located and immediately begin downloading a code or other data object available over the cable system. The Download Control Message specifies, for example, the size, name, version and location (URL or transport stream and PID) of the object to be acquired by the set-top terminal. The terminal accordingly can begin immediate acquisition of the object. An address or other characteristic associated with the Download Control Message allows the system operator to target the Message to a particular set-top terminal or group of terminals.
US08032915B1
Digital television system overlays subscriber two-way communication during broadcast program delivery to create virtual audience community. Individual or group billing and advertisement is personalized per DTV receiver program viewing and/or conferencing activity. Subscriber receiver includes camera and other media I/O device for multi-way video conferencing. Participants may be added or removed dynamically during programming or conferencing.
US08032914B2
Systems and methods for dynamically allocating bandwidth in a digital broadband delivery system are disclosed. One example method includes receiving information describing subscriber requests for content delivery, receiving bandwidth allocation criteria, and processing the information describing subscriber requests and the bandwidth allocation criteria according to a statistical model. The bandwidth allocation criteria comprise at least one of subscriber pricing information, content delivery mode information, and program content information. The processing produces a bandwidth allocation schedule in which one of a plurality of content delivery modes is assigned to each of a plurality of digital transmission channels for each of a plurality of time periods.
US08032904B2
In an interactive broadcasting system, television programming may be broadcast with interleaved web content information. The progress in broadcasting the web content information over one or more transports and over one or more channels within those transports, may be monitored to provide a time based indication of what content has been broadcast. In one embodiment, markers may be inserted into the data transmission flow and a method may be utilized to associate a handle with a particular marker. A method may be called which obtains the handle and another method may be utilized to invoke the handle to obtain current information about broadcast transmissions. This information may be used within a broadcast encoder or may be provided to a content provider, for example, through a log-in server.
US08032902B2
In a motor including a chucking device for detachably holding a disk, the chucking device has a center case to which a central opening of the disk is inserted. The center case has a cylindrical portion coaxial with the center axis, a cover portion for covering an axial upper side of the cylindrical portion of the center case and a base portion fixed to the shaft-fixed portion of the rotor holder; resilient members received within the center case; and claw members remaining in contact with the respective resilient members, the claw members being movable radially to hold the disk in place. The center case is spaced apart from the rotor holder except for the base portion contacting with the shaft-fixed portion of the rotor holder.
US08032895B2
An operating system for a computing device comprises a kernel portion having a publish and subscribe facility for retrieving a property published by a first process and notifying the retrieved property to one or more further processes requesting to subscribe to that property. By providing the publish and subscribe mechanism within the operating system kernel, changes to properties can be notified to subscribers in real time and without the need for dedicated client server mechanisms. The publish and subscribe mechanism may be provided with access control properties established when a property is defined. The mechanism may also be used for a message and message queue facility in the computing device.
US08032894B2
In embodiments, an implementation of a service oriented architecture is provided including an application service bus capable of approximating point-to-point performance by reducing the format transformation of application messages by way of relaying them in a native format when the message format of a consumer application and/or service provider application is supported by the service bus. Preferably, the service bus is capable of supporting multiple message formats and transport protocols and comprises a plurality of components including a Service Initiator module, a Service Terminus module, a Service Locator module, and a Transport module. The service bus provides logical isolation between a consumer application and a provider application by exposing a set of interfaces for relaying service request and service response messages between the applications.
US08032887B2
A data processing system allows processes to be checkpointed and restarted. The system saves the old process and thread identifications in a process table. When an application makes a system call passing the old process and/or thread identifications as parameters, the system performs a mapping algorithm to supply the system call with the new process and/or thread identifications. When a system call returns a new identification, the system performs a remapping algorithm to return the old identifications to the calling application program. When a group of process is restarted for which the process group leader was not checkpointed, the system creates a ghost process group leader.
US08032884B2
Systems, methods, and devices, including computer executable instructions for transferring threads are described. The method comprises determining an idle processor by checking a handoff state of the processor prior to placing an identified runnable thread in a run queue of an idle processor. The method also comprises transferring the runnable thread to a determined idle processor by setting the handoff state of the processor to a handle of the runnable thread.
US08032880B2
A system for managing updates of an executable component in accordance with an updating tree with multiple branches is provided. In one implementation, specific updates are provided to users with specific problems while general updates are provided to all users of the executable component. A range of lower version numbers is reserved for the general updates. When a specific update with a version number higher than those in the reserved range has been installed on a computing device, an installer may prevent a new general update with a lower version number to be installed. The installer may determine a new specific update corresponding to the general update and provide an indication to the user to install this new specific update instead of the general update. This multi-branch update delivery system enables users to elect to receive only updates that are necessary.
US08032877B2
The present invention provides a solution where interactions between different C++ modules can be reduced to interactions written in the C programming language. This permits code linking the difference C++ software modules to be written in the C programming language. Because naming conventions for linking symbols are standardized for the C programming language across all compilers, the C++ software modules can be linked to each other in a compiler neutral fashion. This is true even when the linked software modules are complied using different C++ compilers having non-standardized naming conventions for linking symbols. In absence of the disclosed solution, the different C++ compilers would generate code that cannot be linked.
US08032868B2
A method to trace a variable or other expression through a computer program is disclosed. A user determines the variable and the conditions upon which activity of the variable will be monitored. As a result of the invention, every time that variable is referenced in a memory operation or other activity by the program and the conditions set forth by the user are satisfied, the state of that variable is saved as a snapshot without interrupting or stopping execution of the program. The snapshots are accumulated in a history table. The history table can be retrieved and the state of the variable in any given snapshot can be restored. Other variables and expressions can be attached to the trigger variable and the states of these other variables at the time of the activity of the trigger variable may also be saved in the snapshot. The method may be incorporated into a program as a tracing device or a program product separate from the logical processing device executing the program.
US08032856B2
A method of designing a semiconductor integrated circuit, includes dividing a layout area in which a wiring pattern is disposed, into a plurality of division areas, determining a dummy pattern disposition area provided in each of the plurality of division areas, adding a dummy pattern to the dummy pattern disposition area of each of the plurality of division areas, and combining division areas to which the dummy pattern is added. The dummy pattern disposition area is arranged away from at least one of boundaries between a corresponding division area of the plurality of division areas and adjacent division areas.
US08032851B2
A design structure for reducing coupling between wires of an electronic circuit is proposed, wherein sets of nets are classified according to their coupling characteristics, and spacing between wires assigned to the sets of nets is chosen according to the coupling characteristics.
US08032848B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatuses for verifying the functionality of a circuit. The system can determine a lower-bound-distance (LBD) value, such that the LBD value is associated with an LBD abstract model of the CUV which does not satisfy a property. The system can use an abstraction-refinement technique to determine whether the CUV satisfies the property. The system can determine an upper-bound-distance value for an abstract model which is being used in the abstraction-refinement technique, and can determine whether the LBD value is greater than or equal to the upper-bound-distance value. If so, the system can conclude that the abstract model does not satisfy the property, and hence, the system can decide not to perform reachability analysis on the abstract model that is currently being used in the abstraction-refinement technique.
US08032847B2
A layout design method of a semiconductor integrated circuit includes degenerating a layout netlist extracted from layout data, comparing the layout netlist after the reduction with a circuit diagram netlist, and creating a layout circuit association table of a layout cell after the reduction and a circuit element. The method includes creating a before and after reduction association table based on the layout netlist before and after the reduction, counting the number of layout elements in a layout cell area before the reduction, comparing the counted number of layout elements and the number of degenerated elements, and creating mapping information associating the layout cell with the circuit element.
US08032841B2
The present disclosure relates to exception page programming, and, in particular, to a system and method for providing an exception page programming tool for use with a page description language file where the exception page programming tool can display exception page programming within the context of a print job.
US08032833B1
A method and system for providing a user interface for a user to discover and control devices that are currently connected to a network, such that at least one of the devices performs steps, by: (a) obtaining information from one or more of the devices currently connected to the network, the information including device information; and (b) generating a user interface description based at least on the obtained information, the user interface description including a reference associated with the device information of each of the devices currently connected to the network, such that the reference includes at least one link to information contained in the devices currently connected to the network. As such, a user interface can be displayed using the references in the user interface description, for controlling the devices currently connected to the network.
US08032831B2
Systems and methods for replaying historical workflow information. Workflow information is collected while tasks and documents are being processed. The collected workflow information is stored in a database so that at a later point in time, the historical workflow information may be retrieved and provided to a user. Through computer-human interfaces, the user can move forwards and/or backwards while replaying the collected historical workflow information.
US08032829B2
A method of transferring data from a financial program to a word processing program to view and modify financial documents in the word processing program is disclosed. The method may entail selecting a template in an accounting program wherein the template has a field related to the selected template, identifying an open field in the selected template that can be filled in with data from the accounting program, selecting data stored by the accounting program that is appropriate to fill in the open field in the selected template, communicating the selected data and the selected template to the word processor and opening a document in the word processing program that displays the selected template and the selected data in the appropriate field as a word processing document.
US08032817B2
Error detection and error location determination circuitry is provided for detecting and locating soft errors in random-access-memory arrays on programmable integrated circuits. The random-access-memory arrays contain rows and columns of random-access-memory cells. Some of the cells are loaded with configuration data and produce static output signals that are used to program associated regions of programmable logic. Cyclic redundancy check error correction check bits are computed for each column of each array. The error correction check bits are stored in corresponding columns of cells in the array. During normal operation of an integrated circuit in a system, the cells are subject to soft errors caused by background radiation strikes. The error detection and error location determination circuitry contains linear feedback shift register circuitry that processes columns of array data. The circuitry continuously processes the data to identify the row and column location of each error.
US08032812B1
A method and system for error correction decoding uses concatenated error correction decoders. A channel decoder receives encoded user data from a transmission channel, decodes the bits of the user data, and generates erasure information for the decoded bits. The decoded bits and erasure information is received by an outer ECC decoder, which first performs erasure decoding. If the erasure decoding is successful, then the decoded user data is output. If the erasure decoding is not successful, then the outer ECC decoder performs the more complex error decoding. Thus, error decoding need not be performed for user data that can be successfully decoded using erasure decoding. The extra operations required to perform error decoding is avoided. In this manner, the complexity of the overall decoding process is reduced, significantly reducing the computation power required, while maintaining the desired performance level.
US08032809B2
Provided is an apparatus for detection timeout of each channel, which is a socket connection, in a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Offload Engine (TOE) using TCP accelerating hardware, and a method thereof. The timer managing apparatus of the TOE using the TCP accelerating hardware, including: a command register for receiving a command for a retransmission timer or a delayed ACK timer from an embedded processor of the TOE; a finite state machine (FSM) for storing information of a timer in operation by analyzing the command for the retransmission timer or the delayed ACK timer stored in the command register and controlling an entire operation of the timer managing apparatus; and a timeout checker for checking timeout of a timer in operation by using the stored timer information and notifying the timeout to the FSM.
US08032808B2
The invention is concerned with an Internet telephone system having a client/server architecture and providing voice communication between client stations over the Internet through gateway servers. The system includes a plurality of software modules within each of the gateway servers for performing digital signal processing (DSP), and an account manager placed at an arbitrary location on the Internet for monitoring transactions between client stations to produce billing information. The system is characterized by low latency, full duplex voice communication, and permits telephone to telephone or PC to telephone connections.
US08032788B2
The present invention relates to a method for managing the restarting of automatic control equipment, consisting in: backing up, on an outage of the main electrical power supply, in a non-volatile memory (Flash 2) of the automatic control equipment, the data and a signature (LID′) associated with the mapping of the data in the volatile memory (RAM) of the application program which is running at the time of the outage, after the end of the main electrical power supply outage, reloading the application program into the volatile memory (RAM) from a backup available in another non-volatile memory (Flash 1), comparing the signature (LID′) with a signature backed up (LID) to decide on a restart of the automatic control equipment.
US08032781B1
A system and method for allowing more rapid takeover of a failed filer by a clustered takeover partner filer in the presence of a coredump procedure (e.g. a transfer of the failed filer's working memory) is provided. To save time, the coredump is allowed to occur contemporaneously with the takeover of the failed filer's regular, active file service disks by the partner so that the takeover need not await completion of the coredump to begin. This is accomplished, briefly stated, by the following techniques. The coredump is written to a single disk that is not involved in regular file service, so that takeover of regular file services can proceed without interference from coredump. A reliable means for both filers in a cluster to identify the coredump disk is provided, which removes takeover dependence upon unreliable communications mechanisms. A means is provided for identification during takeover of the coredump disk and SCSI-3 reservations are employed to coordinate write access to (ownership of) shared disks, so as to prevent takeover from interfering with coredump while simultaneously preventing the failed filer is from continuing to write regular file system disks being taken over by its partner.
US08032775B2
A journal volume is created in a different power control unit of a normal mode, and the power saving mode is maintained by storing differential data in the journal until the corresponding power control unit is returned to a normal mode. A replication pair in a pair status in the power control unit is confirmed, set as a target to be switched to the power saving mode if it is of a constant value or less, and a management server is notified if there is an operation for creating a volume.
US08032767B2
An illustrative power-efficient data center is described for operating in an uncontrolled environment in one scenario. The data center includes an air moving system that applies unconditioned air to resource items. The resource items are stripped down to provide a substantially minimum set of components for performing the data center'core functions. Various illustrative techniques for managing a power-efficient data center are also described.
US08032756B2
A signature support system includes a local machine, a remote machine, a document management server, and a signature server. The remote machine uses terminal services of the local machine to access the document management server, and correlates document data with a document ID serving as identification information for the document data, to register the document data in the document management server. Similarly, the signature server is accessed, and caused to generate a pair of a signature key and a verification key, and the keys are correlated with biological information read by a biological information reader, and are registered in the signature server. The signature server generates signature data for the document data that is correlated with the document ID received from a user, and is registered in the document management server, by using the signature key correlated with the biological information read by the biological information reader, and registered in the signature server.
US08032752B2
A data transmission apparatus, a data reception apparatus, and a data transfer system prevent a case where same usable data is present in plural apparatuses at the same time and can certainly move data, in MOVE processing of the data between the data transmission apparatus and the data reception apparatus. The data transmission apparatus includes a synchronous control unit synchronizing a timing of (i) deleting or invalidating, in the data transmission apparatus, move-target data and (ii) decrypting, in the data reception apparatus, the move-target data that has been encrypted. With this, it becomes possible to prevent a case where the same usable data is present in plural apparatuses at the same time.
US08032749B2
The invention relates to a method for remotely controlling and/or regulating at least one system (1), in particular an industrial system using a communications device (2) which is assigned to the system (1), and at least one receiver device (3), information relating to the system being transmitted from the communications device (2) to the at least one receiver device (3), the information containing a validation code which is generated by the communications device (2), a message being received by the communications device (2), the communications device (2) extracting a check code and instruction information from the message according to a first extraction rule, the communications device (2) validating the message by means of the validation code and check code, and the instruction information being implemented by the system (1) only when the validation is successful.
US08032745B2
This invention enables authenticated communications (transactions) to take place on a standard I2C bus without requiring modification of existing I2C devices. Read and write transactions occurring on the bus are authenticated using an Authentication Agent and a shared secret key. In addition to allowing verification of the legitimacy of the transactions, the authentication of the I2C transactions enhances the reliability and serviceability of the bus and devices on the bus by allowing the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) to quickly determine and pinpoint errors.
US08032741B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a request for a trusted platform module (TPM) operation from a virtual machine, determining whether the request is for a modification of a TPM version, and associating part of a multi-context hardware TPM with a virtual TPM (vTPM) to enable the modification. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08032739B2
Manufacturing a virtual information handling system (IHS) includes creating a virtual IHS including a component identifier. A boot process is then started for the virtual IHS. A manufacturing operating system is retrieved for the virtual IHS using the component identifier. The manufacturing operating system is installed on the virtual IHS. Manufacturing a virtual IHS may also include determining a common operating system and a common software subset among a plurality of to-be-manufactured virtual IHSs. A first virtual IHS may be created and the common operating system may be configured on the first virtual IHS. At least a portion of a first virtual IHS software may also be configured on the first virtual IHS. The configuration of the first virtual IHS software on the first virtual IHS is stopped when the common software subset is configured on the first virtual IHS. The first virtual IHS may then be cloned to create a cloned virtual IHS.
US08032727B2
Methods and systems for processing multi-stage programming (MSP) bits within one-time-programmable (OTP) memory are disclosed herein. Aspects of the method may comprise determining whether at least one MSP memory bit in the OTP memory is programmed and whether a register bit associated with said at least one MSP memory bit is asserted. If the register bit is deasserted and the MSP memory bit is unprogrammed, the MSP memory bit may be programmed. The register bit in the OTP memory may be associated with the MSP memory bit. The MSP memory bit may be programmed to logic zero or logic one. If the register bit associated with the MSP memory bit is asserted, programming of the MSP memory bit may be blocked. The register bit associated with the MSP memory bit may be reset and it may be determined whether the MSP memory bit is accessed.
US08032724B1
A method and system for performing garbage collection in a memory is disclosed. Aspects of the exemplary embodiment include dividing garbage collection into atomic operations, including read, write, and block erase; storing read cycle times, write cycle times, and block erase cycle times of the memory; receiving a communication from a processor indicating at least one idle period when an application executing on the processor will not make a request of the memory, wherein the communication indicates a time duration of the at least one idle period; and in response, performing at least one of the garbage collection atomic operations within the time duration, whereby garbage collection can be performed during the at least one idle period, rather than when the memory is substantially full.
US08032716B2
A system, method and computer program product for providing a new quiesce state. The method includes receiving a quiesce request at a system controller from an initiating processor. The quiesce request is sent to a plurality of processors. Notification is received at the system controller that the processors have finished purging their translation look aside buffers (TLBs). A fast quiesce reset command is received at the system controller from the initiating processor once updates to the system resources are complete. It is indicated to the processors that the block translation restriction can be dropped in response to receiving the fast quiesce reset command, thereby allowing the processors to continue processing without block translation restrictions.
US08032714B2
A method is disclosed including a client accessing a cache for a value of an object based on an object identification (ID), initiating a request to a cache loader if the cache does not include a value for the object, the cache loader performing a lookup in an object table for the object ID corresponding to the object, the cache loader retrieving a vector of execution context IDs, from an execution context table that correspond to the object IDs looked up in the object table and the cache loader performing an execution context lookup in an execution context table for every retrieved execution context ID in the vector to retrieve object IDs from an object vector.
US08032713B2
A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design is provided. The design structure generally includes a computer system that includes a CPU, a storage device, circuitry for providing a speculative access threshold corresponding to a selected percentage of the total number of accesses to the storage device that can be speculatively issued, and circuitry for intermixing demand accesses and speculative accesses in accordance with the speculative access threshold.
US08032701B1
This invention is a system and method for managing allocation of storage resources in a storage network, the storage network including physical data storage on a plurality of storage arrays that are in the storage network, and the network is in communication with one or more hosts and the network further includes a storage network management system, communicatively coupled to the storage arrays via the network, the storage management system includes a storage virtualizer capable of intercepting and virtualizing an IO stream from the one or more hosts and which storage network management system further includes a storage and switch controller in communication with the storage virtualizer for storage network management.
US08032696B2
When an external recording medium connected to an interface is removed therefrom and a new external recording medium is connected to the interface, a processor selects either first file analysis information read from a memory or second file analysis information generated based on analysis of data recorded on the new external recording medium as file analysis information to be used for decoding a file stored in the new external recording medium, and the processor makes such selection based on comparison between first recording medium management information and second recording medium management information.
US08032687B2
Supporting limited address mode memory access involves receiving a write request from the processor targeted to a first predetermined address. A data portion of the write request includes a target address of the system memory. In response to determining the write request is targeted to the first predetermined address, the target address is sent via a system interface to be stored in a configuration register of the processor director. A memory access request targeted to a second predetermined address is received from the processor. In response to determining the memory access request is targeted to the second predetermined address, the target address is retrieved from the configuration register of the processor director. The memory access is serviced using the target address retrieved from the configuration register.
US08032682B2
In at least one embodiment, an apparatus for providing resources from a plurality of on-board device nodes to a hot-plugged device node in a computer is provided. The apparatus comprises a resource manager configured to receive a resource request over a bus system indicative of a set of desired resources from the hot-plugged device node. The resource manager is further configured to probe a parent device and at least one upper level device node positioned above the parent device node for the set of desired resources. The resource manager is further configured to provide the set of desired resources from the parent device node and one or more nodes of the at least one upper level device node over the bus system for transmission to the hot-plugged device node to enable the hot-plugged device node to operate in the intended manner.
US08032680B2
Techniques enable reducing a number of intercepts performed by a hypervisor by reducing a number of End Of Interrupt (EOI) messages sent from a virtual central processing unit (CPU) to a virtual advanced programmable interrupt controller (APIC). The EOI path of the guest operating system running on the virtual CPU is altered to leave a marker indicating that the EOI has occurred. At some later time the hypervisor inspects the marker and lazily updates the virtual APIC state.
US08032679B2
A network control device including a network controller for transmitting/receiving data through a network and storing received data in a storage and a network processor for processing data stored in the storage is provided with a usage information acquiring section for acquiring usage information indicating usage state of a CPU, a determining section for determining load state of the CPU from the usage information based on a determination condition, and a mode setting section for setting an interrupt mode to the network processor when the determined load state is low and setting a polling mode when the determined load state is high, the network processor processes data stored in the storage when receiving interrupt notification of the network controller during the interrupt mode, deters the interrupt notification of the network controller during the polling mode and processing data stored in the storage at predetermined intervals.
US08032672B2
A method and apparatus for processing data samples utilizes a channel map populated by device descriptor, or by an application program interface. Packet processing code loops through all of the samples contained in a packet while incrementing through a channel map and steering table without having to look up a table to determine in what audio buffer the sample is to be stored or read. Additionally, the present invention utilizes a stride map, so the audio subsystem knows how many samples to skip in order to reach the next sample frame. The present invention can be used for handling received packets as well as forming packets to send over a bus.
US08032671B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for resuming a media object presented following a data loss event are provided. A physical disconnection that occurs at a point during the presentation of the media object is detected. The physical disconnection interrupts the presentation of the media object. Upon detecting the physical disconnection, a reestablishment of the physical connection is detected. Subsequently, an option to resume the presentation of the media object at the interrupted point is presented to a user.
US08032670B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a first interface circuit, a direct memory access (DMA) controller coupled to the first interface circuit, and a host coupled to the DMA controller. The first interface circuit is configured to communicate on an interface according to a protocol. The host comprises at least one address space mapped, at least in part, to a plurality of memory locations in a memory system of the host. The DMA controller is configured to perform DMA transfers between the first interface circuit and the address space, and the DMA controller is further configured to perform DMA transfers between a first plurality of the plurality of memory locations and a second plurality of the plurality of memory locations.
US08032668B2
A protocol adapter for transferring diagnostic messages between networks within a vehicle and a host computer. The protocol adapter operates as a voltage translator to support J1708 software. The protocol adapter also recognizes when the protocol adapter is connected to a host computer running the J1939 and/or J1708 protocols and automatically switches to that protocol.
US08032662B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a module connecting system that can comply flexibly with the number of expansion modules and has an inexpensive and simple configuration. In the configuration of the module connecting system of the present invention, a basic module transmits a repetitive pulse signal to an expansion module, the repetitive pulse signal whose frequency is divided by a frequency dividing circuit included in the expansion module is output as frequency dividing information to the basic module, and the number of expansion modules is determined based on the frequency dividing information.
US08032652B2
Initiating peer-to-peer tunnels between clients in a mobility domain. When initiated by the controller, the access nodes establish a peer-to-peer tunnel for suitable client traffic so as to bypass “slow” tunnels through the controller. Traffic through this “fast” tunnel may be initiated once established or traffic may be temporarily queued. This queue and release process may be bidirectional or unidirectional depending on the traffic. Completion of slow tunnel traffic may be sensed in a number of ways. Slow tunnel traffic may be timed out, and queued traffic released after a preset time since the last packet was sent through the slow tunnel. The identity of the last packet sent through the slow tunnel may be retained, and queued traffic released when an acknowledgement for that packet is received. A special packet may be sent through the slow tunnel and queued traffic released when an acknowledgement for that packet is received.
US08032643B2
Network latencies are reduced by detecting a metadata access call for filesystem metadata contained in a filesystem node of remotely located filesystem. The metadata corresponding to the metadata access call is fetched when the metadata corresponding to the metadata access call is not contained in a local filesystem cache that has a hierarchical structure corresponding to a hierarchical structure of the remotely located filesystem. Metadata related to the metadata corresponding to the metadata access call from the remotely located filesystem is prefetched when the related metadata is not contained in the local filesystem cache. The metadata related to the metadata corresponding to the access call can be contained in a child node or a parent node of the node containing the metadata corresponding to the access call, or the descendants of such nodes.
US08032634B1
An approach for allocating resources to an apparatus based on resource requirements generally involves a resource allocator receiving a request that specifies resource requirements for the apparatus. A resource allocator determines whether resources are available that satisfy the resource requirements. If resources are available that satisfy a resource requirement, the resource allocator indicates that the resource requirement is fulfilled and the resources are allocated to the apparatus. If resources are not available that satisfy a resource requirement, the resource allocator indicates that the resource requirement is not fulfilled and the resources are not allocated to the apparatus. The apparatus is implemented based on the allocated resources.
US08032628B2
A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring subjective user state data including data indicating at least one subjective user state associated with a user; soliciting, in response to the acquisition of the subjective user state data, objective occurrence data including data indicating occurrence of at least one objective occurrence; acquiring the objective occurrence data; and correlating the subjective user state data with the objective occurrence data. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
US08032616B2
A method of allocating an IP address of an image forming apparatus using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and an image forming apparatus and system performing the method, the method including requesting a DHCP server to allocate an IP address to an image forming apparatus having a previously allocated IP address in response to the image forming apparatus being re-connected to a network, responding to the IP address allocation request by the DHCP server, declining to respond to the response of the DHCP server, and providing the previously allocated IP address to the image forming apparatus upon receiving no response from the image forming apparatus after a predetermined time.
US08032608B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to systems, methods and devices for imaging device event notification administration and subscription. Some aspects relate to selective imaging device event notification based on user credentials and/or the occurrence of a specific event. Some aspects may limit notification subscription to authorized credential holders. Some aspects relate to conditional event notification based on the occurrence of a specific event identified in the notification request.
US08032605B2
A method of causing movement of at least one target device based on at least one of a plurality of motion programs stored on a content server connected to a network. At least one identified characteristic of the at least one target device is identified. At least one selected motion program is selected from the plurality of motion programs stored on the content server. The at least one identified characteristic and the at least one selected motion program are transferred to the motion server. A motion media data set is generated at the motion server for the target motion device based on the at least one identified characteristic of the target device and the at least one selected motion program. The motion media data set is transferred from the motion server to the target motion device to cause the target device to perform the desired sequence of movements.
US08032600B2
Auto reply email and auto reply email methods are disclosed. A particular email message includes a no-reply origination address and a message body. Characteristics of the message body are selected based at least partially on a previous email message sent to the no-reply origination address.
US08032595B2
A user interface for email users which calls attention to one or more categories of emails in different ways. In some species, at least three categories are used: branded senders with Trumarks; white list buddies; and fraudulent emails which are either not from the domain they purport to be from or in which the content was tampered. The preferred embodiment authenticates emails from branded senders and displays them with the sender's Truemark. Branded sender emails have their Truemarks displayed in the sender column of a list view in the preferred embodiment. In a preferred embodiment, white list senders have either an icon or other graphic or photo they choose displayed to the left or right of the sender column with their name in the sender column. In a preferred embodiment, fraudulent emails have a fraud icon displayed to the left or right of the sender column with a warning in the sender column. Antiphishing processing is also disclosed.
US08032594B2
An application and system for inspecting an email message to determine if the email message is being used in a phishing ploy. When an email recipient receives an email message, the email message is sent to an EScam server for inspection. During its inspection, the EScam server considers various criteria, such as an originating country for an IP address associated with a sender of the email message, and assigns a score to the email message. Based on the score of the email message and threshold levels set within the EScam server, an email client determines whether the email message is part of a phishing ploy or a legitimate email message.
US08032593B2
A communications system may include data storage devices for storing data files, and mobile wireless communications devices (MWCDs) generating access requests for the data files. The data storage devices and MWCDs may each use one or more different operating protocols. Each data file may be associated with a respective MWCD and have a unique identification (UID) associated therewith. The system may also include a protocol interface device including a protocol converter module for communicating with the MWCDs using respective operating protocols thereof, and a protocol engine module for communicating with the data storage devices using respective operating protocols thereof. The protocol engine module may also poll the data storage devices for UIDs of data files stored thereon, and cooperate with the protocol converter module to provide UIDs for respective data files to the MWCDs upon receiving access requests therefrom.
US08032591B2
In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods for mapping user experiences over a network include obtaining path data related to a first sequence of user navigation events, obtaining path data related to a second sequence of user navigation events that is at least different than the first sequence of user navigation events, comparing path data of the first and second sequences of user navigation events, identifying changes to the path data, and generating a map of the user navigation events based on the identified changes to the path data.
US08032590B2
An information distribution system include a reporting unit that reports guide information to a user, the guide information showing information to be additionally stored in a storing unit, a receiving unit that receives identification information from the user, the identification information being associated with stored information selected by the user from the stored information shown by the guide information, and a transmitting unit that transmits suitable stored information to the user, the suitable stored information being selected from the stored information based on the identification information as to the stored information selected by the user.
US08032586B2
A method, a system, an apparatus, and a computer program product are presented for a fragment caching methodology. After a message is received at a computing device that contains a cache management unit, a fragment in the message body of the message is cached. Subsequent requests for the fragment at the cache management unit result in a cache hit. A FRAGMENTLINK tag is used to specify the location in a fragment for an included or linked fragment which is to be inserted into the fragment during fragment or page assembly or page rendering. A FRAGMENTLINK tag may include a FOREACH attribute that is interpreted as indicating that the FRAGMENTLINK tag should be replaced with multiple FRAGMENTLINK tags. The FOREACH attribute has an associated parameter that has multiple values that are used in identifying multiple fragments for the multiple FRAGMENTLINK tags.
US08032585B2
A method comprises receiving a representative workload of a computing system, where the representative workload comprises at least one composite transaction. In certain embodiments, the representative workload is a historical workload of a computing system. In general, a composite transaction refers to a transaction that comprises a plurality of transactions. For instance, a given transaction for serving a client's request for information (e.g., a web page) may include embedded therein a plurality of requests/responses for objects (e.g., images, etc.) that form the information (e.g., that form the requested web page). The method further comprises determining, based at least in part on a statistical regression-based analysis, a resource cost for the at least one composite transaction, where the resource cost reflects an amount of utilization of at least one resource of the computing system, such as CPU utilization, in serving the at least one composite transaction.
US08032577B2
The invention is directed to techniques for navigating a network based on audio input to retrieve information from a network. A user enters audio commands into a two-way communication device to access information located on a network, such as the Internet. For example, a user enters a voice request for a web page into a telephone, which sends the request to a proxy browser for the World Wide Web which in turn provides the request to a web navigation application executing on an application server. The web navigation application generates a text-based request based on the voice request and retrieves a web page from the World Wide Web based on the text-based request. The web navigation application uses a script or an XML page to generate a file suitable for audio output from the retrieved web page. The web navigation application then produces an audio output file from the generated file, which it sends to the proxy browser to provide audio output signals to the user over the telephony connection to the user's telephone.
US08032565B2
The invention pertains to techniques for creating media asset illustrations for media assets are disclosed. The created media asset illustrations are useful for media assets that lack associated media asset illustrations. The techniques can analyze media asset data or media asset metadata when creating the create media asset illustrations. The created media asset illustrations can, for example, be used while playing, browsing or displaying associated media assets.
US08032560B2
A method and apparatus for provision of persistence context to program components. An embodiment of a method includes receiving a call from a persistence engine, the call requesting a persistence context for a program component of a computer application. There is a method call to obtain the persistence context; and the persistence context is provided to the persistence engine. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US08032557B1
A compliance lifecycle management system is provided that addresses policy management issues at each stage of policy maturity throughout a policy lifetime. The compliance lifecycle management system provides functionality for policy control at initialization by enabling specification and creation of policies including identifying redundant and sub/super sets of policies across domains. As an infrastructure and its associated policies mature and change, the compliance lifecycle management system monitors compliance to dynamic policies to check for policy conflicts. The compliance management process may further be used to simulate the introduction of policies into the infrastructure to view the resultant impact that a new or updated policies may have on a network. With such an arrangement, policy management practices become more responsive, predictable and efficient.
US08032556B1
Systems and methods for delivery of user profile data are disclosed. An exemplary method includes detecting a request for a full copy of a user profile data package maintained by a user profile data source subsystem, creating an illusion that the request has been fulfilled, and copying on demand a portion of the user profile data package from the source subsystem to a target location for access by a data consuming subsystem. In certain embodiments, the method further includes utilizing the copied portion of the user profile data package for execution of a computing operation, without fully copying the user profile data package from the source subsystem. In certain embodiments, the portion of the user profile data package is streamed from the source subsystem to the target location over a network connection.
US08032555B2
A method for creating networking database containing a plurality of records for different individuals in which individuals are connected to one another in the database by mutual recognition of a relationship. This mutual recognition of a relationship is inferred by the possession of the Guest Key of one member by the other member. This paradigm for network expansion allows users to proactively grow their networks both using the site features and using tools they may be more familiar with, such as email, messaging, talking, etc.
US08032553B2
The present system provides a task manager that extracts information relating to tasks from a task oriented email. The system then integrates the task within the system by connecting the email programs, the task management programs, and a database, to automatically send emails and provide links to documents all related to completion of the task. Methods are provided that allow users of the system to efficiently interface with the system to complete and archive tasks.
US08032551B2
A method and system searches documents that contain an ordered pair of keywords using search indices stored in multiple storage locations. In one embodiment, a server receives the search request that includes an ordered pair of keywords. The server hashes each keyword with multiple hash functions to obtain a hash vector pair, which are used to index a chain of search indices. Hash values in the hash vector pair are used to locate the chain of search indices that are stored across multiple storage locations. The last search index in the chain provides identifiers of documents containing the ordered pair of keywords, with a distance between the keywords in the documents below a predetermined limit. The documents can be retrieved from document repositories using the identifiers.
US08032547B2
Methods and apparatus for use in controlling scanning operations or a scan rate based on call appointments or reminders are disclosed. In one illustrative example, one or more processors of a mobile communication device are operative to identify whether a call appointment or reminder for a communication session to be established during a current time period is stored in the memory, and determine a scan rate for scanning operations of the wireless transceiver which varies based on whether the call appointment or reminder for the communication session to be established is identified. The scan rate may further be determined to vary based on a duration of time over which repeated scanning operations fail to identify a suitable wireless communication network for communication (e.g. as the duration of time increases, the scan rate decreases).
US08032529B2
An interface is operable to receive an element for deletion from a bloom filter. The bloom filter includes multiple hash functions and an array. A processor is operable to generate hash function output values for the element using the hash functions. The hash function output values correspond to indices identifying bits in the array. A memory is operable to maintain supplemental data structure entries. The supplemental data structure has entries associated with the indices. The processor is operable to modify the supplemental data structure entries to delete the element from the bloom filter.
US08032524B2
A content management system includes a content acquisition device that acquires content; and a management device. The content acquisition device performs the following operations including: transmitting the content; receiving a content ID for identifying the content and a plurality of keyword candidates associated with the content; displaying the keyword candidates; and transmitting a keyword candidate designated from among the displayed keyword candidates with the content ID. The management device performs the following operations including: receiving the content; generating the plurality of keyword candidates based on the content; associating the content with the generated keyword candidates, and generating the content ID for identifying the content; transmitting the content ID and the generated keyword candidates; receiving the designated keyword candidate and the content ID; and registering the designated keyword candidate as a search keyword in the search database in association with content identified by the received content ID.
US08032513B2
A system are provided for enabling a user to search for documents that the user has previously viewed on its local machine. The system includes three main components: the desktop integration module, the index module, and the graphical user interface module. The desktop integration module is an application which monitors documents with which the user interacts for predetermined events, and obtains content data and metadata from the monitored documents. The index module indexes the content data and metadata received from the desktop integration module. The graphical user interface module then permits a user to utilize the desktop integration module and index module by allowing a user to search for a document.
US08032510B2
“Smart bookmarks” are described which facilitate aggregation, sharing, and dynamic access to the content in which a particular user has an interest.
US08032505B2
A relative document representing system includes: a first storage; a receiving unit; a specifying unit; a calculating unit; and a representing unit.
US08032497B2
Providing extended or end-to-end data integrity through layers of a system. In one aspect, information is to be transmitted between an application end of the system and a physical storage medium that stores the information for a database of the system, the information to be transmitted via a database server in a database server layer of the system. At least a portion of data protection is provided for the information, the data protection causing the information to be protected from corruption between a system layer and the physical storage medium, where the system layer is a separate layer provided closer to the application end of the system than the database server layer.
US08032494B2
The present invention provides a system and method for archiving data that reduces the time needed for archiving by performing one or more preliminary comparisons of administrative data to preset criteria. Exemplary administrative data may include a resubmission date of a data element that is determined by processing of a rule set and stored with the data element so that it can be used for archiving. The first step of the archiving process may be to compare the resubmission date to the current date. If the resubmission date is less than or equal to the current date, the archiving process continues. Otherwise, the archiving process does not proceed and the application database continues to maintain the data element. Because the resubmission date is stored with the data element to be archived, the data element need only be retrieved from the database to perform the initial check. Only data elements having a administrative data that meet the initial criteria are processed to determine if they should be archived. This provides an efficient archiving process that reduces the overall time needed to archive a database freeing up computer resources for other purposes.
US08032491B1
A system for encapsulating configuration information in storage objects formatted for backup and restore comprises a processor coupled to a memory, where the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to implement a backup manager configured to generate backup versions of a plurality of storage objects (such as files or directories) of a source data set of a primary host. The backup manager may be configured to create an additional storage object that includes information collected from a designated information source in a first format, store the additional storage object within the source data set in a second format, and generate a backup version of the additional storage object.
US08032490B2
A storage system capable of identifying all volumes to be audited is provided.Operation logs 3005 concerning the operations of volumes are associated with a time and stored in storage apparatuses 1400 and 1500, and a management computer 1100 collects information about these operation logs 3005, restores the status history of the operation logs 3005, sets, as an audit range, the operation logs 3005 including volumes with an audit period and audit target data stored therein, extracts the operation logs 3005 belonging to the audit range from the restored status history of the operation logs 3005, and transmits the extracted operation logs 3005 to a computer (requesting computer) 1000. As a result, all the audit target volumes can be identified.
US08032487B1
A system and method for synchronizing data in first and second computer servers is provided. The first computer server includes a first plurality of data sets each having a first identifier and a first set of attributes. The second computer server includes second plurality of data sets each having a second identifier and a second set of attributes. The method includes transmitting a second identifier and a second checksum value both associated with one of the second plurality of data sets to the first computer server. The method further includes accessing one of the first plurality of data sets having a first identifier corresponding to the transmitted second identifier to determine a first checksum value associated with the accessed data set. Finally, the method includes transmitting the one of the first plurality of data sets from the first computer server to the second computer server to replace a second set of attributes of the one of the second plurality of data sets with the first set of attributes of the one of the first plurality of data sets.
US08032486B2
An apparatus includes a hermetically sealed housing formed of conductive material. The hermetically sealed housing contains a circuit that includes a power supply and a power using element. The power supply has a power receiving element within the hermetically sealed housing for receiving electromagnetic radiation having a frequency low enough to penetrate through the conductive material. The power supply is connected to provide electrical energy derived from the electromagnetic radiation for powering the power using element.
US08032483B1
A system provides images or questions to multiple game participants and receives labels or answers in response thereto. The system uses the labels or answers for various data gathering purposes.
US08032471B2
The present invention is directed towards methods and computer readable media for annotating and analyzing user reviews on social review systems with inferred analytics. A reference framework is provided by creating context according to previous activity, bias, or background information of a given reviewer. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a first query identifying a given content item, generating a collection of content items based on one or more identical objective attributes associated with the given content item, identifying one or more subjective attributes associated with a given item in the collection of content items, and providing a reference framework to interpret the subjective attributes associated with each item in the collection. According to the method, the reference framework is created by analyzing previous generated subjected attributes, wherein the previously generated subjected attributes comprise one or more reviews of content items entered by a user into a social review system.
US08032457B2
A method and system for transferring electronic funds over the Internet wherein a sender provides payment information to a transfer processing system. The sender may choose from a plurality of different types of funds transfer, such as wire transfer, Western Union money transfer, various types of checks, and transfers to ATM debit/credit cards. The transfer processing system sends an electronic payment message to a recipient indicating the transfer of funds and a transfer message to a financial institution providing instructions to debit the sender's account and make those funds available to the recipient. If the recipient has an account with a financial institution that is affiliated with the transfer processing system of the present invention, the funds are credited to the recipient's account wherein the payment message serves as a confirmation message. If the recipient does not have such an account, the recipient may access the transfer processing system to access the funds made available by the system wherein the payment message serves as a payment availability message.
